text: Tim, you have identified here a part (or parts) of the problem but also appear to oversimplify the media's responsibility in this. For example, when you write that Wikileaks exposed direct coordination with the Clinton campaign and the media, what you really are talking about is a couple of independent incidents with a couple of different reporters (not an overarching conspiracy among the majority of the hundreds of journalists covering the campaign). While partisan media definitely has pushed people apart, the "traditional" media has had a much lesser role in that. I also don't think the evidence supports the assertion that Trump's words have been taken out of context (by traditional media, not partisan media), or that the messengers (not the actual actors themselves) have stoked fears and racism. Significant issues were not addressed in this past campaign, such as environmental destruction, because the public didn't demand it. Media generally gives its audiences what they demand.