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What is "the news"? I'm also in my 3rd decade, and wisdom tells me there is much to gain from good news sources: NPR (there are others) teaches me something ev

What is "the news"? I'm also in my 3rd decade, and wisdom tells me there is much to gain from good news sources: NPR (there are others) teaches me something every day: People outside my socio-economic bubble their triumphs, their struggles. Do you ever think how the divisions in this country are not because of divisive news, but the lack of learning about and empathizing with people different than us?

Dalewyn 4y ago
>Do you ever think how the divisions in this country are not because of divisive news, but the lack of learning about and empathizing with people different than us? No, the divisive problems we face today stem in vast majority from the media publishing divisive narratives to keep us sensationalized and distracted from greater things. The world appears divisive because the media wants us to believe the world is divisive.
- mancerayder 4y ago
  >No, the divisive problems we face today stem in vast majority from the media publishing divisive narratives to keep us sensationalized and distracted from greater things. >The world appears divisive because the media wants us to believe the world is divisive The Taibbi argument is this coincides when news media switched from being a for-all source of information (where it was biased but still for all audiences) to a bifurcated model where stories that infuriates one side or another of the political aisle were focused on. Starting with Fox News which was wildly successful, the same thing becomes replicated with MSNBC, CNN, and such. The numbers show it: 90+ percent watchers of the former are Republican, similar or higher are Democrats with the latter two. Now with online ad sales and clickbait, the situation continues. Echo chambers form on social media, themselves cycling in to one or another of the news medias they orbit around. The point is not to talk about politics, but the idea that the division has a rationally profit-driven motive. And yes it's horrific.

Dalewyn 4y ago

>Do you ever think how the divisions in this country are not because of divisive news, but the lack of learning about and empathizing with people different than us? No, the divisive problems we face today stem in vast majority from the media publishing divisive narratives to keep us sensationalized and distracted from greater things. The world appears divisive because the media wants us to believe the world is divisive.

mancerayder 4y ago
>No, the divisive problems we face today stem in vast majority from the media publishing divisive narratives to keep us sensationalized and distracted from greater things. >The world appears divisive because the media wants us to believe the world is divisive The Taibbi argument is this coincides when news media switched from being a for-all source of information (where it was biased but still for all audiences) to a bifurcated model where stories that infuriates one side or another of the political aisle were focused on. Starting with Fox News which was wildly successful, the same thing becomes replicated with MSNBC, CNN, and such. The numbers show it: 90+ percent watchers of the former are Republican, similar or higher are Democrats with the latter two. Now with online ad sales and clickbait, the situation continues. Echo chambers form on social media, themselves cycling in to one or another of the news medias they orbit around. The point is not to talk about politics, but the idea that the division has a rationally profit-driven motive. And yes it's horrific.