Generalizations like this make everyone in the country seem like lemmings. That must be the same reason why the world sends its best and brightest to America to be educated.

The second fly in your ointment is that you assume the source to be credible. If it is credible, then at some point other news companies will be forced to recognize that credibility.

But, sadly, the NY Post has a history of exaggerating the truth and bending it in ways that will inflame and influence people like yourself, making you the one who's being told by the media what to think.