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You're right of course, but to speak like Kevin Drum, does it matter? The vast majority of the US population never sees—let alone reads—any of these alternative sources. What they do see and hear is largely controlled by media that don't pay much attention to issues like these or bury them in drivel.

This may be because of the reasons tacit brings up, but such a view ignores the need (and market space) for alternative views to put this kind of incestuous news gathering in perspective. That approach is different from toeing the party line to the exclusion of everything else in that it would allow news consumers to make up their own minds. At the very least you wouldn't support a situation of Ich habe es nicht gewusst.

Sure, it's difficult to do justice to many of today's issues, but it's far from impossible. The US market is big enough to allow for some diversification along these lines, but you tend to see it, like US politics, settle at some median view that for the last decades has been skewed even further to the right than it usually is. But what boggles my mind is that so few follow the money trail to see who's really making out like bandits to the detriment of society at large. Otherwise, the Occupy Wall Street protests would be far larger...