> red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory What about the rest of us? Most of us are not partisans fi

> red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory What about the rest of us? Most of us are not partisans fighting a distracting culture war. First, let's set social media aside and look at traditional media - TV, papers, radio, et al. Most Americans are completely unserved by traditional media. Because it's ad-funded, ads want attention, nothing gets attention like outrage, and it's easy to outrage the partisans. Given that, the only place we can find news (beyond sports and weather) that is not partisan bear-baiting is in emerging social media. Social media is a threat to traditional media. Thus we have traditional media (like this article) trying to scapegoat social media, trying to finger social media for the hyper-partisan content-free hellscape that traditional media has become.