As the Media Merges with Politics, Can We Resist 'Electotainment'?

What were they thinking? Did the Democrats who decided to extend the campaign season with a year of frenetic barnstorming really believe that would turn more people on to politics or was it just another fundraising gambit?

As the race drones on, as the mainstream turns into a mud-stream, cynicism and tune-out deepen. It's a reaction to what Time Magazine's once called, "electotainment," an ongoing televised carnival in an age of hyper partisanship, in which the corrosive spirit of polarization between Democrats and Republicans has now led the Dems to polarize themselves.