I CAN'T EVEN TELL ANYMORE

I was reading the headlines this morning, and I thought that the papers were actually doing a pretty good job of coverage. Then I realized something: I am so suspicious of the media now (and for good reason) that my sense of how they are doing is skewed almost beyond recognition. They have done so little for me over the last 5 years that I cannot read a headline without wondering what the political motive and backstory has done to the coverage. It is sad in a way, and perhaps partially my fault, but I feel almost like a jilted lover who cannot stop think that his now faithful wife is cheating on him.
I guess that means that this process is not one that can be simply reversed. The transformation of our media into a political tool is not complete, but neither is it something we can simply walk away from. Although this is something of a tired analogy, and in this case perhaps overwrought, i see it as a line of dominoes already beginning to fall. And the last domino is the democratic process.

OGW