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I'm not sure there's any use in pointing out the ridiculousness of American mass media any more. Anyone with a brain realizes it and gets their information from foreign media and the internet; the rest of the country is probably a lost cause if they haven't figured out by now that US news is simply commercialism, gossip, and various strains of wacko zionist hysteria.
If one cares to look for an explanation, the interests of the owners of these huge media corporations and the sources of their advertising dollars are enough. There's also the several-decades long tradition of political imbecility and cultural vapidity in this country. Then the fact that the aforementioned 30% of the US or so really have drunk the "they're coming to get us and make us all wear burkas" kool-aid, and will probably go to the grave believing it. This is an audience that will not go away any time soon.
