Fletch. There's a number of issues it seems almost everyone is in Agreement on(police militarization, txting and driving, healthy living, congress actually doing something/anything/atleastshowuptoyourjob).
It would seem that a large majority of public concern and support on such issues would illicit some form of change or progress. It *almost* seems like the media would rather focus our attention on high emotional/low actual impact issues.
I know I, for one, will start taking more grains of salt in the upcoming headline social issues.
I hear ya. People compromising and working together to get things done doesn't piss people off and get ratings. The "news" is entertainment just like anything else these days. Sad state of affairs.