American MSM / cable news media has the same coverage style as their sports media. In many ways their political culture is just team sports, NFL, but transposed

American MSM / cable news media has the same coverage style as their sports media. In many ways their political culture is just team sports, NFL, but transposed into another domestic sphere. It's weird though how Americans you'd think would know better don't always see this. Was hanging out at a friend's house in the US, he tossed on CNN and I made comments to the effect of what garbage it was, and he got really defensive; as if the only alternative to that ... was Fox news and Trumpy Republicans. I think many US "liberals" just feel continually under siege, and deep in a culture war, and everything is just absolutely binary "my side" vs "your side." But it's imho a trap. E.g. the same friend just can't comprehend that we have a 3rd (social democratic, left wing) party here in Canada. To him it's just "splitting the vote" and we should all just be voting Trudeau to stop the evil Conservative horde. Because that's the corner US politics has been backed into. Completely tribal, team-sports, football metaphor pasted over everything. (And it keeps getting exported up here.)