Speaking of "mainstream narrative".... Neven, I never did get your answer to my question of "how many hours of mainstream US television on CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC do you watch per week?" Unless you answered it and I missed it somehow.
You talk quite often about the "mainstream media"... and I am curious as to how much you watch directly each week.
Other than watching a little BBC from time-to-time....I know very little about the European press...either mainstream or other.
I watched it for 75% of my life. I worked in it as a translator and saw how it was made. Around 10 years ago I stopped watching most of it, and since then invest my time in reading/watching investigative reporting and in-depth analysis. You hardly get any of that in mainstream media. Mainstream media is about ratings for ads for money from large corporations, presented by out-of-touch millionaires. There is a certain narrative, and if you deviate from it, you're out of business. That means you can't have analysts on that speak truth to power (people like Chomsky, Klein, McKibben, etc), or at least not too often or by themselves (have one or two other 'reasonable' speakers).
When I have time, I watch sources like Democracy Now, The Real News Network or The Young Turks. Places where war is denounced, where AGW is discussed in depth and rationally, where everything that is wrong is discussed (and not silenced because the other team is saying it too), in short: where truth is spoken to power.
If you disagree, that's fine, but the only time when I watch mainstream media, is when it is being discussed, because it's mostly unreliable, manipulative and geared towards protecting the status quo (making the mountains of concentrated wealth bigger).
You might find that unreasonable, but if I had been reasonable, I would have never started blogging about Arctic sea ice or set up this forum. 'Reasonable' isn't going to cut it, and so I'm against BOTH Trump AND Clinton, and anything else the system throws at us to keep our eyes off the ball.
There's your answer, so now you can go: 'You don't watch mainstream media, do you? That means you don't know what you talk about. I win.'