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It's not just Trump. The conservative movement has been actively discrediting all sources of information but themselves for many years. During the election, so
by hackuser 10y ago
It's not just Trump. The conservative movement has been actively discrediting all sources of information but themselves for many years.
During the election, some of the conservative opinionators (bloggers, radio, etc.) who opposed Trump observed that they had no way to credibly contradict Trump in the eyes of their readers, as they had delegitimatized all other sources of information.
- astrodust 10y agoIt's not just the Republicans that are eager to cut scientists off from the media and the public. The Conservative party in Canada did exactly the same thing, much to the dismay of scientists and the public: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/when-science-goes-silent/ http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/when-science-goes-silent/ They also infamously shut down a climate research centre that was keeping ice-core samples frozen. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/tories-cutting-vital-climate-science-critics-say http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/tories-cutting-vita... Anything that contradicts the messaging of a modern "conservative" party is something that must be destroyed.
- scholia 10y agoYes. BI ran a good story on this: http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudge-coulter-2016-8 http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...