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The headline is false. As per the data from the article itself, only 24% of Americans preferred partial or biased media. The overwhelming majority of people wit
by somenameforme 2y ago
The headline is false. As per the data from the article itself, only 24% of Americans preferred partial or biased media. The overwhelming majority of people without power prefer impartial media.
It just happens that of the relatively small percent of people that prefer partial or biased media, it's mostly made up of people with "no power." But even that is also dubious to plainly false since the article's definition of "no power" is very weird and includes anybody who is "ideologically or politically engaged", which is essentially every single person at the highest levels of power in the country.
- dmix 2y agoIt's also arguable whether or not the list of people who prefer that sort of media "don't have power". It is defined in the article as: > (a) the ideological and politically engaged; (b) young people, especially those who rely mainly on social media for news; (c) women; and (d) less socioeconomically advantaged groups. People in all of these groups can still have varying forms of power and influence in society. Politically, culturally, or economically. This is borderline clickbait, which is sad because I like neimanlabs.
- staticautomatic 2y agoWhat's at issue is not really whether they have power. It's whether they feel like they have power.
- somenameforme 2y agoBut then it becomes even weirder, because what percent of all people feel like they have "power"? Excepting an utterly negligible percent of people, I'd think somebody was bordering on megalomania (or an abundance of naivete) if he said he did.