“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the pollsters”

CNN Pundits (Photo by Kyle Grillot, Reuters)

Lawyers are not our problem, since Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher is an evil archetype. The trite punching bag of “mainstream media” is not our problem, mostly because there really is no longer any mainstream among the oceanic wetlands of infotainment culture.

Our problem is the trivialization of our news business. And I say news business because it is the only private…