re: #370 Flyers1974

I definitely wouldn’t argue that it is irrelevant yet. I figure committed conservatives and committed liberals are out of the equation - they’ve already made up their minds and can’t be persuaded under any circumstances. So you have the non-committeds, god knows what percentage they are. It would be interesting to see a poll(s) that if available, that show trust in media say in the 50’s 60’s etc… and today.

I have to disagree. First, i do agree with you that such a poll would be illuminating; my guess is that it would show a precipitous drop in trust in the media, across the board, regardless of political party.
Second, — I don’t agree that ‘committed liberal and conservatives have made up their minds and can’t be persuaded under any circumstances.”

i think that claim both overstates liberal and conservatives’ commitment to “the democratic party as it is” and “the GOP as it is”, and understates the amount of middle ground between the two groups: core principles each agree on.

I admit I’ve got a slightly utopian idea here that the political landscape could be redefined in such a way as to to permit that middle ground to be acknowledged and claimed,

I think there’s enough anger and disgust with partisan politics and with the media that such a reconfiguration at least looks possible right now.