Our media has never been representative of the population's views. It was always spinning an image that looked like the people doing the presenting, even when t

Our media has never been representative of the population's views. It was always spinning an image that looked like the people doing the presenting, even when they didn't mean to. I doubt many people actually cared about the president's religion. They might for a brief moment while the media was making a big deal out of it, but they forgot they ever cared as quickly as they took the issue up. The memory hole in 1984 wasn't just something Orwell made up from nothing.