Imagine if all this time dedicated to basketball was allocated to Piketty's new book

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49. No, of course not

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and it's clearly gotten worse. What irks me is the suggestion in the OP that racism is less worthy of attention that this book. I simply pointed out that the book has gotten a lot of attention and gave links to some of it.

However, you exclude from MSM virtually all news outlets in the country. If we exclude public broadcasting, print journalism, online magazines, and cable news, all that is left is the half hour evening news programs. I don't know why you threw Entertainment Tonight into the discussion.

There are a few reasons that news coverage has deteriorated. Print journalism is dying out and no longer covers much of once it once did. On television, the networks now seek to turn a profit from news programming rather than providing it as a public responsibility, but I also blame viewers, including liberals. People here seem to want MSNBC to only saw things that they agree with, essentially to make them feel good about themselves. That so many only want to be exposed to information they already agree with is, I think, a serious problem and a good part of the reason why the public is poorly informed.