I think the media can only blame themselves. They are clearly driven by agenda, and biased, and misinformed. The example about Cologne just describes the fact

I think the media can only blame themselves. They are clearly driven by agenda, and biased, and misinformed. The example about Cologne just describes the fact that as the media have been very reluctant to report certain facts for well intended reasons , they have lost a lot of credibility. Also, maybe we could skip voting all together and just use allotment to assign the parliament, drawn from a pool of people with high scores on (say) national tests, no criminal record and over a certain age... That was the definition of democracy from the beginning, and I'm starting to think that it won't be worse than the current plutocracy, or maybe even better, and probably a lot cheaper.