From Peggy Noonan’s “Patriotic Grace”

We’re not sharing the same information anymore. We used to share the same information- and argue about it. But now more and more we don’t even get the same essential facts, or headlines. And I think in part this change had an impact on how we actually viewed the political realities of the last seven years. If you wanted to hear that Iraq was a great success, you went to Fox. If you wanted to hear that the generals in the Pentagon were rebelling against the White House leadership, you went to CNN. If you wanted to take a full, deep bath in George Bush’s greatness, you went straight to one cable show; if you wanted all the arguments on the enormity of his failures you went to another.

This sort of thing is never a problem or a challenge for the sophisticated and mature. But it causes problems for … well, for those who really can not think easily or well.

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