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CNN has one of those silly interactive polls going on — completely unscientific, basically useless. Pretty middle-of-the-road grades for President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. Congress — Democrats and Republicans — gets C’s and D’s from most states in the Union.

Strangely sensible for a self-selected sample, I thought. Then came the question, “Grade the performance of the media.” And the results look like this:

Purple is the color code for “D.”