In a perverse way it's wonderfully charming to be living at the tail-end of Western civilization and to realize that we'll be the first civilization in history to destroy itself in the glorious pursuit of ad revenues. Because it's the never-ending chase for ad revenues that drives the media to propagate the lies and distortions that create sufficient sensation to grab eyeballs for a few precious seconds during which they can be monetized. Were it not for the mass media, the blustering clowns and repulsive liars wouldn't receive all that free publicity and the consequent amplification of their grotesque messages.