[LZ_Bayonet]

"Don’t really see that scenario anymore, due to the fragmentation of the media into a million directions and a million ghettoized cubbyholes, which distances and alienates everyone from a common American culture."

But those were also the days when ABC,CBS, and NBC had total power over news reporting (spin) and defining or creating American culture.

[greene66]

True, the monopoly on news was the bad side of the coin. The explosion of new media sources via internet/radio/cable, however, which seemed such a promising development in breaking this up, hasn’t exactly been paying off dividends over the past few years. I was optimistic over this development ten years ago... hardly anticipating a marxist-inclined president and a country swirling downhill in rapid decay right around the corner.