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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Whether or not policy appeals to us as voters, the media thinks it doesn't appeal to us as consumers, and would rather try to persuade us to watch their channel or buy their paper by gotcha politics. Plus, there's a bias towards covering the campaign as a horse race, with the emphasis on tactics.
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Sadly, to our discredit as thinking voters, they are only giving their (mass) audience what it wants.
