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> If anything is destroying journalism, it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction. (You sure stirred it up with this one.) But it
by TheRealDunkirk 10y ago
> If anything is destroying journalism, it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction.
(You sure stirred it up with this one.)
But it's not really true, is it? The better way to describe the situation would be to say that the ~35% at BOTH ends of the political spectrum only wants to hear and read "news" that confirms their biases. And "journalism," as a business, has given them that.
What I'm saying is that we don't have a "facts" OR a "news" problem. We have an ideological division/superiority problem, and I don't know if anything can fix that.
Well, short of splitting the country into 3 parts: the 2 coasts, and flyover country, and letting them all go hard towards their biases, and checking back in on the results in about 50 years, and see which experiment worked better.
- 0x445442 10y agoGood analysis and you've touched on something very important; is multiculturalism really the best option? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_multiculturalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_multiculturalism I look at the pros & cons of a place like Japan and wonder.
- dandersh 10y agoNo, the person you quoted is absolutely correct. A frustrating part of political discourse is that most people don't bother to put in the time and energy to understand the things they talk about, largely because it does matter enough to them to actually be right.
- mistermann 10y agoAs someone "on the right", I think you hit the nail on the head. At least for me, I have no problem at all admitting there are tons of faults among people on my side of the spectrum, seeing someone point out the same for the left is extremely rare. Out of curiosity, which "side" are you on predominantly?