More seriously, David Frum is smart enough to know that cable television is entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator. In the United States, that is a very low bottom. In contrast, magazines that explore ideas- Right, Left and Center- sell less than 1 million issues per month in a nation of 300 million. From Mother Jones, New Republic and the Nation to National Review, The Weekly Standard, Chronicles and The American Conservative, magazines of thought are a drop in the bucket of national tastes. That is why democracy is a bust. Most Americans want to be entertained. They not only don’t want to think very hard, they don’t want to think very often.

http://americaspeaksink.com/2009/11/take-tasers-away-from-the-police-now/

Don’t forget the reason for the season…News outlets have a vested interest in keeping any real, economic news that might cause any consumer to think twice about closing their wallets on this, the biggest shopping weekend of the year. This is the season that their retail advertisers need to make up ground in an otherwise dismal year, thus raising enough capital to continue to advertise with the cable networks in the upcoming year.

Let’s see- It’s Black Friday and you have a choice of running stories about reality show hopefuls and a famous golfer who turns out not to be such a good driver after all VS real econmic news that might cause consumers to think twice….Not a surprise at all that we got what we got.

You mean news for news sake might not really be news. Are you now going to agree with Greenspan that the market doesn’t self regulate, that your media market doesn’t either? Are you going to imply that the media has a responsibility to inform over it’s responsibility to it’s creditors. This is heresy, David you are scaring us.