I read a very liberal local newspaper that comes out weekly. I was hopeful that when I saw this headline… TV news is as much to blame as Trump  …that I might at last agree with something in it. And then I read the beginning of the article: Much is being made of the president’s targeting of CNN’s Jim Acosta, but TV news bears as much blame as anyone for our democracy’s dystopian decline, culminating in the presidency of an ignoramus with a personality disorder. They must immediately stop doing three things: repeating his demagoguery verbatim, playing the outrage game, and focusing on him to the exclusion of other important stories. Instead, they must embrace their solemn duty and educate the population about our great challenges – ratings be damned. But the author’s only problem with the media seems to be that the media covers Trump and repeats what he says too much. My complaints about the media, on the other...(Read Full Article)