• Journalism has become an exercise in pigeonholing.
• Journalism has become an exercise in creating conflict by reducing issues to competing either/or choices.
• Journalism has become an exercise in creating dissonance so as to attract an audience so as to attract advertisers.
• Journalism has become an exercise in discounting the positions of the opposition to the point of purposely losing their entire intention and meaning.
• Journalism has become an exercise in reductio ad absurdum when in fact the issues and sides are typically too complex for a reduction to absurdity or fallacy.