| As an American I suppose I will give my opinion as well.
First, our media went a little overboard during the sixties. They got used to everyone simpy accepting everything they said and simply abused that power to increase their own personal revenue by exaggerating events to increase interest in them. They eventually (during the '90's) got so extreme that even the normally intelligent people would believe the TV before they would bother to involve their own minds.
Second, conservatives finally decided to compete with the liberal viewpoint, which was a good thing at first. The more outragous BS would get dispelled by logical explainations.
Currently, the liberal media has had to change tactics from being deities to being expected to compete that they are totally disorganized and impotnet, so they are just trying to toady up to anybody that may give them back their power base.
On the other hand, conservative media has began to act like the problem they were designed to combat. They are beginning to push ridiculous observations expecting their watchers to follow like sheep. |