journalists feel like okay, now we have to cover this anger, okay, now we have to cover that anger. and you know, the paranoia you're talking about may be important but the basic elemental, fundamental niceties are what need to be addressed first. >> let me uphold why i think i'm right. look, the driver -- the reason people are so upset in the united states is not because of what they hear -- of what the 5 million people who -- out of the 300 million people who watch cable news hear on cable news. people are angry and upset because the country's been through an economic trauma of the worst kind since world war ii. and that means they have these emotions already and they look for people who will speak to them. in that sense it's just -- it's background noise. the thing that is -- yeah, it's corrosive of the media culture, but the thing that paralyzes the government, the thing that makes it difficult for members of congress who are elected by all 300 million people, or at least of voting age, not just the 5 million who watch the cable news, is that they are trapped within false narratives that are