It isn’t an accident that Fox News recently changed its motto from “Fair and Balanced” to “America’s Most Watched, Most Trusted” network. In Chapter 1, we considered Robert Putnam’s argument that in America, “Connections among individuals, social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them” have eroded dangerously. As recently as the early 1990s, it wasn’t like this.
