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But the Democrats are the party of the entertainment industry. They know how to create fiction and appeal to fantasies.

Oh that’s good. Very well spoken...: )

Good catch; I would’ve missed that gem. And I would not have wanted to,
The Democrats are the party of the entertainment industry - and the entertainment industry includes journalism.
If you seriously reflect on the rules which journalism sometimes claims define objectivity, you see that “If it bleeds, it leads,” “‘Man Bites Dog’, not ‘Dog Bites Man’,” and “Always meet your deadline” obviously have nothing to do with "the public interest," and everything to do with interesting the public. Entertainment. Journalism’s claims of objectivity and public spiritedness promote journalism’s interest, and flatter the reader - while journalism delivers only titillation and appeals to least-common-denominator intelligence.
It is often suggested that journalism is in the pocket of the Democratic Party, but there is no need to make that assumption. It makes logical sense to turn that around and suggest that the Democratic Party is in the pocket of journalism. Of course, that would imply that journalism has a single, “liberal,” voice. And democracy is pretty much predicated on a free press as well as free speech. And before the Civil War era, that was the case - but
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch 10
since the middle of the Nineteenth Century there has been an organization which has systematically unified journalism via a continuous virtual meeting over the telegraph lines. It is called, appropriately enough, the Associated Press. We have always had a free press, but an independent press has not existed in the memory of living man. The Associated Press defaults to the perspective which flatters journalism - and politicians who go along and get along with journalism.