"The triumph of opinion-driven cable TV and the collapse of newspapers has created an American news media that does an increasingly poor job of informing the public. And an excellent job of dividing it. There is more information than ever available to Americans, but few ways to reliably gauge it. Cable pundits, meanwhile, enjoy unprecedented wealth and influence. What do Americans get in return? A hyperbolic political debate that rewards extremism and poorly informs the public. Hard-line conservatives are to blame for the current crisis. But, sadly, so is America’s failing news industry."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/How-the-Broken-Media-Helped-Break-the-Government/280261/

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