Recently discovered your site and have enjoyed some posts I have seen. This post, however, I’m not so much on board with. I certainly agree that mainstream news media focuses a lot of attention on issues that are trivial. But there are also things covered in both mainstream, and to a greater extent, alternative news media, that I think are very important.

Do you think it’s a good thing to be ignorant, for example, of laws which are passed or Supreme Court decisions which have major social and/or political consequences? Is it really a good thing to be ignorant of the political/social/economic situation in other countries? These are areas where the news media can shed light. Maybe if people were more aware of the world outside of their own bubble, politicians couldn’t fool them into supporting immoral wars.

I do agree that the mainstream news media, especially in the U.S., is pretty bad overall, but there are good sources of information out there, particularly on the internet.