[rlmorel]

For me, it wasn’t sudden.

I remember the 24x7 (what passed for that back then) Watergate coverage that was clearly a mob mentality. Through the Eighties and into the Nineties, I became angrier and angrier with the media, to the point I completely stopped listening and watching them sometime between 1996 and 1998.

I think people who have CNN or other media on all day long have a screw loose. That not only seems bad, it seems unhealthy.

[Dan in Wichita]

I remember the Watergate era coverage too. The media was absolutely determined to make people concerned about Watergate. During the summer of 1973, the Watergate hearings were broadcast on all three channels. Everywhere you turned, there was Watergate.

Think about how minor the Watergate break in was in comparison to the Clinton fundraising scandal of 1996 or the Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign in 2016. And yet, the individuals responsible for those massive scandals have gone unpunished. It is because the media decides what is a scandal and what is not, and until the media paradigm is altered, it will remain that way.