Sure looks like Senator Obama will be our next president. And that both houses of Congress will be more Democratic than now. And suddenly we will start to feel better about our country’s various situations.

We will feel better because the mass media shape our feelings. They barrage us with news and information, of course. And a high percentage of what they feed us has been feel-bad stuff. Much of what they will feed us after the inauguration will be feel-good stuff.

Please don’t accuse me of being cynical here. I am merely being realistic.

We have seen countless surveys of attitudes on display in our mass media. Virtually all tell us those attitudes are liberal, left, usually in favor of the Democrats.

In the past several years mass media have turned most good news into bad. Examples of this are too many to document. They are abetted in this by an army of academics who openly despise even the Pledge of Allegiance if it comes from the lips of George Bush.

And, of course, vast segments of the media exist to publicize Hollywood-types. Anytime a movie star decides to become an expert on Iraq or the economy our media will feature his or her pronouncements.