The news is democratic in the sense that news targeted towards the general public needs to be catered towards the general public, just like any other product. What good does framing an issue as one sided if nobody is going to watch it except people who agree with it already?
It sounds like we're talking about different products. I want to buy information, not reassurance. Maybe the purchasing power of people like me has gone down relative to the general population, but news organizations shouldn't be surprised then when people like me are less interested in the product they modified to be more palatable for a different target audience.
