You clearly have a terrific grasp of this absurd situation, but let me suggest that the media, too, could not be in business without our money and support. They can’t sell it if we don’t buy it. And cumulatively we have bought it all from Fox to CNN to MSNBC to the NYT.... Air time is expensive. When you stop and realize that even Howard Stern has his followers who are willing to pay for his air time, it is an easy jump to accept that the media is getting away with all its manipulations and biases because we let them stay in business. The media wouldn’t exist without its listeners/watchers and if we stopped buying the garbage they sell, politically or otherwise, they’d either be out of business or would have to give up manipulating and start reporting.
Sorry for the double post — hit it twice by mistake.