© Reuters / Jonathan ErnstJournalists wait for US President Barack Obama to start his annual year-end news conference in 2016.
Media outlets have become increasingly partisan in the US, pandering to prejudices and biases of their audiences. The phenomenon of a media bubble - when a person can select its information sources to completely shut off undesirable opinions - may have originated online, but now traditional media are eager to serve the same purpose, as long as it benefits their ratings.
Watch a report by RT's Caleb Maupin on how the US fell into the divisive split over what reality is.
Good. Very good. The more Americans are consumed with their domestic business the less oxygen there is to intrude on the affairs of the rest of the world. American society is very fragile. Any economic, fiscal, business shocks received is shock treatment to a corrupt, lazy, self-indulgent populace. Exceptions notwithstanding. So, double the retail price of a microwave and people will freak out. Gas at $5gal?
Russia and China re much more resiliant regimes. They can and will take some pain and make do. At least for far longer than the American public can take.