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It has, but it's never been so easy to spout off to the world before, or be instantly informed about what other people are thinking. In the 1980s the media hat
by ams6110 9y ago
It has, but it's never been so easy to spout off to the world before, or be instantly informed about what other people are thinking.
In the 1980s the media hated Reagan about as much as they hated Bush or Trump. Before that it was Nixon. But you really only heard about it if you watched the evening news, and that was 30 minutes of the day. It wasn't being fed to you continuously like an intravenous drip on your phone.
It's the speed and pervasiveness that have increased, not so much the partisanship.
- tim333 9y agoI'd disagree and say through the Bush Clinton Bush Obama period it wasn't as bad. I guess the levels of stupid vitriolic and hateful come and go. The world has definitely gone through worse phases as well, see the 1930s for example.
- creaghpatr 9y agoThey probably would have been worse to Bush up front had 9/11 not happened. Blasting the President in the year(s) after 9/11 would have probably been in poor taste through the eyes of the public.
- Slansitartop 9y ago> In the 1980s the media hated Reagan about as much as they hated Bush or Trump. Before that it was Nixon. But you really only heard about it if you watched the evening news, and that was 30 minutes of the day. It wasn't being fed to you continuously like an intravenous drip on your phone. While I wasn't mature enough then to form my own opinion about it, I'm under the impression that the media was also more restrained and professional back then. Now it seems a lot more tabloid, generally. There also seems to be a burring between "opinion/editorial" and reporting, especially online, which fuels the polarization.