I believe, Independent, if you were to revisit posts from the guys here with those questioin mind, the answers would be self-evident.

By and large, media only feed-back what it's imagined their target audiences want to hear. Not unlike designing products for a perceived market. Even books. Way back when, my New York literary agent told me to spend LOTS of time searching libraries, looking for books which didn't exist. If I found no titles on a given topic, THAT'S the book proposal he wanted me to write for him to pitch.

Personally, I don't attach much significance to much of anything media have to say. In parallel with what Johnny Cochran said about the O.J. Simpson trial, ("The color of justice is green."), implying law has nothing to do with justice, media content is, more often than not, just the glue which holds the commercial plugs together and has nothing at all to do with real information or relevance.

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