The latter has seen its influence shrink dramatically, and it is unsurprising that the current stance is often one of protection and defence.
It is therefore unsurprising that the music press largely ignores teenybopper fans and the artists they admire, as the most obvious inhabitants of this mainstream.
It is therefore unsurprising that politicians court the soft news media.
Again, this is unsurprising on a theistic view of nature, but not obviously to be expected otherwise.
Most of what was learned was, in retrospect, unsurprising.
It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that their locus on the political spectrum was so hotly contested.
It is therefore unsurprising that coins were rarely used.
The lack of sustained growth in expenditure on this service is perhaps unsurprising, given the receding threat of epidemics.
