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Folks, the article is about how national political news dominates to the detriment of local politics.
by metabagel 3y ago
Folks, the article is about how national political news dominates to the detriment of local politics.
- steveBK123 3y agoExactly what I see in my friends groups. I have friends who are politically active, to the point they will organize voter letter writing, march in all the various anti-orange man marches, go to fundraisers for various national politicians.. watch every stupid newstainment John Oliver/Hasan Minhaj/Colbert/Jon Stewart/etc shows religiously. They'll argue about politics halfway across the country, and then admit they are completely unaware of various local NYC events because they do not watch or read any local news sources. Like how do you choose your DA/city council/mayor/etc choices in that scenario? Unbelievable to me.
- keiferski 3y agoI have been thinking lately that maybe a consequence of AI generated content and overall information overload might be that people start losing interest in global and national politics and start caring more about local issues, not out of a desire for localism, but simply to not go insane from the abundance of information. But it also might just lead to a loss of interest in the news entirely.
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, but I think that the experiment they performed is deeply flawed and doesn't indicate anything about that subject one way or another.