[jonathan180iq]

I think it has more to do with what media is, really.

I mean, to be honest, if you just want raw news, sans opinon, then the unedited presentations on CSPAN are really your only option.
It's amazing sometimes, the difference of personal feeling you will get if you watch a complete speech, without interruptions, on CSPAN and then watch a news delivery of that same speech by a major media outlet. It's why I stopped watching news all together a few years ago.

Pundits are nothing but celebrities. They have no formal training in the events or topics that they have such strong opinions about. They are, essentially, nobodies, and we listen to them as if they were some type of authority on any topic at all.

Rush Limbaugh
Rachel Maddow
Glenn Beck
Wolf Blitzer
Bill O'Reilley
Sean Hannity
That cajun guy....
Anderson Cooper
Kim Kardashian
Honey boo boo

These are people who haven't ever contributed anything, really, to our society. They are household names, yet they are nobodies. (At least Cooper would put himself in the real places he was reporting on. But that's about it) Point is, what are they authorities on, aside from having station-funded and scripted talking points and are good at delivering their ideas?

Thing is, this clown show would disappear if we didn't buy into their product. But we do.