Someone needs to sit America down for a desperately needed intervention: Our nation is in an abusive relationship with the media, and we need to break it off for our own good. The media beat us down with their doomsday scenarios, manipulate us with exaggerations, hide the truth with misrepresentations and then we come crawling back when they shamelessly pull at our heartstrings. The problem is we can't break up with the media, especially right before a presidential election. How else are we going to know who wins, which candidate is suing the other, or which demographic of voter is being disenfranchised this time? The country is too big to run around from polling place to polling place and tally it up ourselves, and hardly anyone knows Morse code anymore. [more] Pictured above: News Actor/Cultural Manager/Bush Yes -Man, Tom Brokaw