My thoughts on media are too extensive to encapsulate here. I may at some point attempt an encapsulation but I have avoided making the (obvious) connections between media and politics in most of my analyses.
That's why I was terse in my response. It was not because I do not take the subject seriously.
Check this thread:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=&threadid=911
There's more an attitude of questioning that I engage in as regards media than there is one of drawing conclusions.
I do believe there are important effects of media that affect our political thinking. Again, it's a very large subject. I didn't want to hijack this thread and so assumed, apparently incorrectly in this case, that my thoughts regarding media are well enough known here.