Is sensationalist television news creating a political crisis that keeps us from solving problems? | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

This weekend brought a surprise involving “Our Brand Is Crisis,” the Sandra Bullock-Billy Bob Thornton movie about rival U.S. political consultants in South America that crashed and burned at the box office. That’s not the surprising part: The dramedy was tracking poorly and pretty much no one expected a hit, not even studio Warner Bros., whose…