The more I learn about the MSM, the less I buy their old excuses that the public isn’t interested in economics, in foreign policy, in international news, or in “good news”. I suspect it is more likely the reporters and editors who get bored, or who find the material too challenging, or who are too lazy to do the necessary research and checking. It is the reporters and editors who are fascinated by celebrity drivel, far beyond the public’s ability to maintain an interest in it. It is reporters and editors who like the easy to tell, blood and guts crime stories, and whose eyes glaze over if asked to explain a Supreme Court decision. They are the undereducated, intellectually challenged, short-attention spanned types that they accuse the general public of being. No doubt there are some serious professionals among them, but these days, it’s hardly worth wading through the quagmire of failed reporting perpetrated by the undisciplined majority.

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