[OttawaFreeper]

When you look back over the last number of years, it is really disturbing to see how media driven a lot of events and controversies were that were not at all necessary and instead really did erode at the natural glue of our society.

[tomkat]

.. and instead really did erode at the natural glue of our society

Yep

             

[Fester Chugabrew]

gullible public = willing accomplices