This show sucks. Stop talking about it.

The extent to which the media are entranced by political theater is a source of continual disappointment to me.

I do recall, a year ago, there were a lot of people on Facebook trying to say what people should or should not talk about, under the paranoid assumption that talking about the Wrong Thing was a smokescreen for the Real Story.  That's not quite true, and not quite fair.  I do think the media, in aggregate, have done a pretty good job of making sure we have access to the relevant facts.  I don't think anything important is being overtly buried.

The problem is, however, what the problem always was.  There is this emphasis on the outrageous.  American democracy is a bleeding wound, and if it bleeds it leads.

Outrage is appropriate.  We ought to be outraged.  The issue is that the media is extremely obviously not driven by any values other than the desperate need to deliver eyeballs.  Like certain political figures, they have this desperation to be listened to, and they will say anything that will get people to pay attention to them.  One minute they'll be reporting on the sad story of a local business owner who's lived in the country for fifty years being deported with quotes from all his neighbors saying that they love the President but that their neighbor was one of "the good ones", and the next three weeks they'll be talking nonstop about what the President thinks of a stand-up comedian.

And they then go off and wonder why there is so much distrust and hatred of "the media".  This isn't Somebody Else's Problem.  We all need to clean our own houses.