Conventional Wisdom Vol. The political conventions are upon us.
Conventions bring out the very worst in the news media.
One reason viewers may turn off the conventions is that media coverage of conventions offers little more than the conventional wisdom of the media. This is one of those chestnuts of the conventional wisdom that is so widely repeated that its perversity is successfully obscured. But in the last 25 years, as Republicans have surged at all levels of government, male voters have broken against the Democratic Party by a large margin, while the women's vote share has remained about the same. In other words, highly superficial. And then the media will complain that the campaign is more about personalities than issues.