There was always bias in media and large corporations , but the left and right had a lot of members who shared middle or common ground . It wasn ' t nearly like it is now . Now , things have become extremely polarized . First , too many people gravitate to information sources that just parrot what they already believe . These people are completely uninformed , their over confidence in what they believe blinds them . Second , combine all of this with an ideology that really believes it has the exclusive , right moral answers , and we see people losing all sense of objectivity . Whether that ' s the case here ? I suspect it ' s part of it , but we ' ll never know . This person obviously took it personal , and went way overboard .