Isn't it ironic that

[kandrathe]

Those are in it, too? That's quite a conspiracy you have uncovered there

You have heard of the phrase, "If it bleeds, it leads"? For media the best possible scenario is controversy. They need to motivate you, and get your blood pressure up. If they didn't, you would cease to find their media interesting and go do something else. So, in America, we mostly have two flavors of pablum, one for those who lean left and one for those who lean right. And every four years the media is filled with the idiotic battle of the pablum eaters.