There was a practical joke done by NPR (of all places) where they posted a controversial title about reading (like how kids were writing reports based on titles alone) and the actual article was about how people don't read past titles. The amount of people that shared that on Facebook (in a ironic holier-than-thou attitude) was staggering.    For all you hear about Trump, you don't really get to see unedited speeches by him: that would destroy the liberal narrative. Instead, you're given carefully edited clips with (((journalists))) giving their summaries of the rest of the video in order to push an agenda. Sure, they might say it's for time (and perhaps it is on some level), but it's easier to demonize someone when you cut them off from  70e4   the whole story.    Add that to the general disinterest most people have for politics, and the MSM can feed highly curated snippets to a public disinterested about the subject as a whole (and thus less likely to do research).