It works pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15844087
If that doesn't work, they can always blame immigrants, Islam or blacks.
Or it could be too many column inches to fill and not enough time to fill them with something insightful.
Yeah, probably conspiracy.
The notion that there's an agenda behind any media beyond selling eyeballs is, of course, a harebrained conspiracy theory.
If you were to suggest that there is an agenda amongst the moneyed classes to keep corporate tax take low and restrictive regulation low then I would most heartily agree. There is overwhelming evidence that that is the case.
That there is a high level conspiracy to pit parent against child so everyone's too busy infighting? Extraordinary claims etc.
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy for GP to be basically correct. If you're a true believer in the free market, the market can never fail, it can only be failed.
Bad economy? It's the millennials. Not enough jobs? It's the foreign imports. Stagnant real wages? Blame illegal immigration.
Daring to question the efficiency of nearly unregulated capitalism is basically taboo in America.
Perhaps the greatest unexpected result of the internet is how we dont need papers. Choice in what i read is mine.