jc456
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why does it matter? the biggest step is to admit it. Some stations hate half of americans and the others mock the other half for the hate. Hate has truly lost its luster.Indeed, there is virtually no unbiased news right now, and we don't seem to care.Pushed by biased news outlets, and exposed by the internetAbsolutely, yes.Not so sure.I think that's a part of it. The proliferation of "media" (ha) sources has led to a level of competition the industry could never have imagined.hell i'd not be surprised if they honestly don't give a damn like we think they about the news but we one day find out THE MEDIA caused a lot of the divide just to get the attention and revenue.
The other half of this, though, is that the "media" sees how splintered we have become and is simply responding to (and even creating) demand. As a predictable result, this is all feeding on itself.
The problem now is that a truly curious and open-minded individual can't believe anything they read, hear or see out of hand. That's not good.
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the lie here is that this is new - that news is only biased now rather than the fact that it has always been biased. The new part is the media has realized they can take it a lot farther.
the fact I can't trust what I read is not an issue for me - there is not a time when anyone could trust what they read without a critical eye towards it. The real problem is that the electorate has decided that open minded and critical thought is not worth the effort and they would rather have confirmation than information. If there is one fatal flaw in democracy this is it.
Worse, this is a choice we're making. We're choosing to expose ourselves only to "news" we "agree" with, and to isolate ourselves from that which we don't.
I've said before, I truly don't know how a republic is supposed to survive when its citizenry choose to exist in different realities.
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We're content to believe and trust the distorted news provided by our tribes, isolating us from each other more every day.
That is killing us.
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