Just a light and witty note about the reading habits of the readers of the mainstream media:

Presumably we are we entertaining ourselves rather than informing ourselves. What Leunig doesn't show is that the mass media market is fragmenting into different markets. We desire short, sexy and showy ideas. But not too sexy or young as that causes a conservative backlash-- one driven by the desire to keep the conservative movement in a state of moral outrage and panic.