In case you missed it last week, Jesse Kornbluth discusses his view on the media from afar:

On the way back to town an idea started to form. These people hadn't turned their backs on America; America had turned its back on the rest of the world. Not in so many words - the message was more like: "You can't get anywhere without Uncle Sam." And the rest of the world had noted this, absorbed it, and decided to muddle on without us.

Or maybe it's something else: American culture has stalled. "They" make movies we don't want to see, publish books we don't care to read, release music we can't bear to hear. The answer to every American cultural question is "nothing applies," because there is a schism between the government and the people. The government is crazy and - belatedly - most adult Americans seem to know it; the people have no power and the government knows it. Somewhere ahead we sense there's a reckoning, which makes us uneasy if not outright terrified.