Journalists at mainstream media organizations wallow in a zero-sum world: There can be only one evening television anchor and one top editor at a newspaper.

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In a zero-sum world, you may envy or blandish others, but you cannot trust them, because you can assume they are seeking to aggrandize themselves at your expense.

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In a profession offering a limited number of powerful slots--100 senators, 50 governors, 1 President--politicians live in a zero-sum world, where the gains of one necessarily come at the expense of others.

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Both groups share a zero-sum view of the world.

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These two attributes alone guarantee that the blogger has a clearer view of how the world really works than does the zero-sum thinker toiling away at his mainstream media position.

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