Our View: It might be time to refocus

If you’ve been having trouble talking freely with friends and neighbors since the last election, you’re not alone.

And the media wouldn’t have it any other way.

Whether we’re sounding the drums of the Left or the Right, there’s nothing that sells quite as well as conflict.

Even your hometown newspaper is guilty of leading with the bleeding.

That’s because conflict is what makes a story interesting.

You’re a reader - think about the last book you read.

Now take all of the conflict out of it.

Reading can be a pretty boring exercise without the conflict.

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