Yet we bombard you with headlines all day long, and increasingly present the news as a sports-like zero-sum battle between two sides, in which every day can only end with heartbreak or triumph for your belief system. In sports it’s a major taboo for a broadcaster to admit that the outcome of any sporting event shouldn’t be in the top 50 concerns for any sane human being, or point out that just because teams from two cities are playing each other, doesn’t mean people from those places should dislike one another.
