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> What's happening around you should be informing your decisions come election day. Should it? Isn't that how we got into this mess where every single publicat
by pb7 6y ago
> What's happening around you should be informing your decisions come election day.
Should it? Isn't that how we got into this mess where every single publication and topic is politicized? There's no chance this isn't why public trust in media is dropping aggressively.
- hobs 6y agoYour proposed alternate is to ignore information to vote, which seem obviously worse?
- Retric 6y agoPersonally, no. You can easily look up actual crime statistics for example and become informed, watching the news doesn’t make you actually informed about anything particularly relevant. Put another way, the news cycle is a thin slice of time and news organizations filter things based on what’s important to them in the moment. A mass shooting for example might only make the news because it happened to follow some other even larger mass shooting.