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Personally I think the failing fourth estate has particularly enlarged this problem, since by not correctly performing their duty of informing the citizenry the

• guildwriter 9y ago
  I think it's worth saying that the fourth estate is also falling prey to the changing economic landscape of the times. It's not like the old days anymore where access to publishing tools was heavily gated. Everyone fights for eyeballs now. Everyone fights to be first. The growing result is that we're seeing more and more news organizations gravitating towards providing a specific kind of narrative tailored to their target audience. People in general don't want to have their views challenged. That approach is tiring as you have to fight through your own cognitive dissonance each time. Rather, they want to hear what they believe to be already true. This is why Twitter and other social media companies drive us towards echo chambers. It's how they keep people coming back, and thus make themselves more appealing to advertisers. It's easy to talk about the duty of the fourth estate, but writing a well balanced narrative does not pay the bills these days.
• skybrian 9y ago
  These days, things often happen on social networks before the press starts writing about them. Can you really blame the news media when they're getting routed around? Many big controversies would happen without them.