> I think this is missing the darker point, which is that the main stream media along with the political parties that support them, are the the echo chamber. T

> I think this is missing the darker point, which is that the main stream media along with the political parties that support them, are the the echo chamber. They are part of the echo chamber. They aren't the echo chamber. Social media does a fantastic job of demonstrating that people naturally construct their own echo chambers. We tend to judge the main stream media & polities without appreciating a context where they don't exist. It's increasingly clear that for all their ills, they do deliver, albeit in a flawed and limited degree, on their espoused objectives. They're terrible, except as compared to all the alternatives.