You’ve heard of infotainment. We live in what I call the age of arguetainment.

In the age of arguetainment the most condescending, dismissive, antagonistic newscasters win. They are the ones who get the biggest ratings. It’s like 20 years ago our news programs were taken over by the World Wrestling Federation.

And similar to the World Wrestling Federation we too often forget it’s not real. It’s just a paid performance. News today is like a reality TV parody of itself. Frankly, I can’t believe no one has come out yet with a reality TV show to pick our next most blustery newscaster. Though I’m sure it’s on its way.

These shows do a fabulous job at getting us worked up but they don’t generally help us build the deep understanding necessary to deal with our very important and complex challenges. And the internet magnifies this 1000 times.