Q: What is the chief political function of the news media in the USA?
A: To divert the public’s attention from what is important to what is trivial and thereby to ensure that fundamentals receive little or no discussion and hence play no role in political competition.
-Bob Higgs,
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
From personal experience, I can’t find fault with that. How much time was spent last night on trivial things compared to “fundamentals”? No, I am not dismissing “character” as a function of my vote but it is difficult to pick either Trump or Hillary as someone I could say “of low character” (and “high” or even “medium” don’t even enter the picture (or the entire gallery, for that point)).
