by Dave Roberts » Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:24 am
That's one of our major problems in that advertising dollars follow that which gets folks stirred both in support of their base and in anger toward that with which they disagree. Moderate content seems most often in PBS and NPR than anywhere else in our culture. Centrists don't seem to do much more than invite the extreme left and right to harangue them. There is a great vacuum in the middle of the dialogue. Interestingly, in general elections, at least in the past, the left and right both tried to move to the center in the dialogue, but only so far at the risk of losing their extreme bases.