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Reminds me of this great piece by the late Aaron Schwartz - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

News (particularly in the US) is so caught up in Politics that no one ever knows what anyone's policies are any more.

My favourite part of this article is:

There is voting, of course, but to become an informed voter all one needs to do is read a short guide about the candidates and issues before the election. There’s no need to have to suffer through the daily back-and-forth of allegations and counter-allegations, of scurrilous lies and their refutations. Indeed, reading a voter’s guide is much better: there’s no recency bias (where you only remember the crimes reported in the past couple months), you get to hear both sides of the story after the investigation has died down, you can actually think about the issues instead of worrying about the politics.