Media narratives

   I think we all intuitively know we are being played by the national media.  Whether it is Faux News making up half the stories it airs or the sometimes obsessive Rachel Maddow twisting a minor story into a half hour diatribe against the enemy du jour, we are constantly exposed to prejudicial coverage.      A well informed public would be proof against most slanted stories, but most of us get our daily dose of news from the narrow spectrum of media we feel most comfortable consuming.  For example, in today's NYT, Paul Krugman laments Cheetolini's biggest supporters, the "low information" voters he supposedly loves in many cases don't realize he has done nothing for them since winning the presidency.   Most of these voters either consume Fox and Friends or are too busy keeping their financial heads above water to pay attention to politics, especially from liberal columnists.  Similarly, Michelle Goldberg says the media narrative of Mayor Bill De Blasio is contemptuous of his presidential run.  However, De Blasio has done quite a bit for low income New Yorkers at the expense of the wealthy.  For some reason, the national media treats his quixotic campaign as a joke, while lauding the far more politically adept Mayor Pete, who has done little or nothing for his economically challenged constituents.
    Let's face it.  Most of us are either too busy or too lazy to stay well informed about politics.  tRump's ascendency as a celebrity president* proves my case.  If we want to avoid the death of our democracy, it behooves us to become the well informed citizenry our Founding Fathers expected us to be.