The wall-to-wall media coverage is the elephant in the room, and also widespread militant egotistical secularism and exaltation of ridiculous drivel like 'All choices are equally valid.' I'm not very religious, sort of an Agnostic I suppose, but you don't have to be a Jesuit philosopher to see that belief that there is no higher power than one's own ego quickly leads to a total loss of frame of reference for one's moral compass.