re: #6 Charles Johnson
Right wing White Christians are the largest single tribe in the USA. And because of this 90% of the media is catered towards them either by direct identification (Fox News, IBD, Breitbart, etc ), overt populist sympathy (USA Today), or fear of marginalization (NYT, 95% of mainstream printed local media).
It is this demographic that has a strangehold on the framing of any story in this country.