Recommended: Rage Is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous

Peggy Noonam has a good piece in today's Wall Street Journal: Rage Is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous.  She is right - the media has abdicated its social responsibility and is having a wonderful time chasing readership by fanning the flames of our current political divides, making the problem worse. But then perhaps we ought to realize that the media isn't about informing people anyway - it's about making money for the owners and boosting the reporter's and writer's salaries and reputations, and what better way to do that then feed the public sensationalized news, whether or not it is fair and balanced (or even true).