THIS JUST IN AT AP. Poll: Vast majority of Americans don’t trust the news media.

As I wrote in 2007 for the Objectivist-themed New Individualist (ignore the 2011 date on its reprint), the Blogosphere was a bipartisan phenomenon. The right has been complaining about media bias ever since Spiro Agnew’s “Nattering Nabobs” speech of 1970 — but the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren/Al Sharpton left thinks those very same journalists are too conservative, and neither side feels well served by a mass media. Suddenly, at the dawn of the 21st century, both sides now had easily affordable — often free — tools to do something about it. As a result, the notion of a one-size-fits-all mass media became a relatively brief one in American history, originally made necessary by the economies of scale required to build the first nationwide radio networks in the 1920s, who then became the “Big Three” commercial TV networks in the 1950s.

As for America’s dramatic fracturing of opinion between left and right and coastal elites and the voters, well, that will happen to a nation on its way to becoming the next Yugoslavia.