Stupid comments by stupid people make better copy, Amos. There is no real journalism any more. It's all geared toward market share.
If they quote an intelligent person, then they have to work to make it interesting to the audience.
You'll get only a small blurb on why Greenspan thinks the prime should increase, but Madonna gets a banner headline. Yet Greenspans decisions have a very direct impact on our lives while Madonnas life and career do not affect us at all in any meaningful sense.
The media seem hell-bent on giving the public what it (the media) >I>thinks it (the public) wants and that is bread and circuses.
Larger market share, bigger profits, more dumbed-down "news".

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