Isn't the lack of a more successful, Centrist, talk show media mildly suspicious?

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Particularly since the vast majority of Americans were having their 401-K's and financial institutions looted, their National Debt doubled in only 8 years while an unjustified war was accelerated in an oil bearing nation nearly to the exclusion of the real threat in both Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan? The Taliban may have even greater access to nuclear weapons now. And all of this taking place while many of our jobs were outsourced or merely eliminated while a vast wave of disenfranchised, peasant class poured over our southern border from what amount to, essentially, corrupt, Narco regimes? Do you ever suppose that any significant voices may have been silenced early on by a predominantly consolidated and corporate media controlled by the far right wing that sought to appeal to the least educated, fundamentalist, corn belt individuals that could easily be lead by a brash and pontificating, high school graduate with an adequate command of the American language? Sorry to use so many convenient labels but there is no way to ask this question with any economy of words by me.
This is starting to look like the Biblical conundrum of finding an honest man (person).
Man-person?
I know well how to formulate my own opinion- my concern, obviously, resides with those who are either incapable of or have chosen not to do so for a variety of reasons that, admittedly, I may not know. The thing that I am asking is to what extent the corporate media have manipulated all of our opinions to some extent (notice that I am trying not to refer to the "Right" or "Left" media right now but the one that exists as we type).
...Which, of course does not represent the vast majority in its' opinions as I- me, myself and I, assume that it could, should and even would were it given a chance.
Oh, what the hell, I guess you're right- who gives a fig?
 
Not at all.

Centrists and those on the left prefer to do their own homework and think for themselves.

It's the lost souls on the right that hate education and thinking for themselves, preferring instead to be told what they think/believe/support by the talking heads they idolize.

The ratings don't lie!
 
Not really.

People who spend their lives listening to talk radio do not have much of a life.

Most people od not have the time to listen to talk radio.

I would expect that the people who listen to talk Radio are a rather unusual subset of the population and do not represent the majority of Political Opinion in this Country.
 
Not really...boring does not get ratings, ratings get Ad $$$$$. Far Left and Far Right talking heads generate higher ratings because of the sensationalism...higher rated shows get the Ad $$$$$$$ while boring lower rated shows (which covers Centrist talk shows) get shoved into the wee hours or get canceled.

Not too suspicious...just Reality.
 
Start watching PBS and listening to NPR. That is the closest to Centrist as you are going to get.
 
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