In my view, the mainstream media pulled off a virtual coup by defrauding the voters into accepting an unqualified candidate who was never vetted properly.
My view is that Homogenous JournalismTM retains the audience and influence it does for two reasons:
- the desire, nay even the lust, of people to know "what is going on." I characterize it as a "lust," in that the temptation Eve succumbed to in the Garden of Eden was "to be as gods, knowing good from evil." Likewise in the ancient text, "The Odyssey" (so old that it predates written Greek, which was developed in order to codify it and Homer's other great work, "The Iliad"), Odysseus is driven temporarily mad by the Sirens' Song - by the temptation they held out - which was, "to know all."
- the demagoguery of Homogenous JournalismTM, in that they flatter the reader that s/he does in fact know what is important, since s/he has bought and (partially) read the paper, and the paper tells you what is important, so the reader is "in the know."
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