Too many echo chambers. Watching and even listening to the news is painful [almost makes you happy to hear a fund-raiser]. The reason is that the antagonists, and following suit the protagonists all feel that no barb, no comment, and of course no tweet should go without a response.
I cannot help but remember elementary school and the inevitable spit ball sessions. There were always a few in class who would line up a dozen prepared spit-balls ready to launch. So seem public figures nowadays. And they fire away -- daily.
Attempts at humor aside, we now see an urge to be on the top of the news cycle, no matter who you are. Failure appears to be silence, so the spit balls are launched. The media, broadly put, feel obligated to go along, and they do.
How about another alternative. Don't totally ignore the echochamber, just relegate it to page three or six? Hold the front page space, or the lead TV stories for policy and events. We cannot defeat the spit ballers, who disrupt with the same motivation as grade schoolers. However, we can reduce their rewards.
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