text: TJLYOM I am with you on this. It seems like the media wants/needs viewers/clicks and so agitates "us". If we are comfortable and happy, then maybe our psychology works such that we sort of relax and don't watch/listen/read/click? But when we get stirred up, we get on alert, like any herd animal, and start paying attention, emphasis on "paying"? And the media are having a field day with Trump and his administration, but is it really a reaction to being "wrong" or "losing" in the election? Don't both sides get so riled up about the other and it's that agitation that the media fans and feeds? Is it the downside of freedom of speech? Just like getting a leader you don't like is the downside of democracy? And getting taken and paying high prices for stuff you want the down side of capitalism?