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Things have been far more polarised since the rise of social media. You can blame fox news and cnn or whatever all you want, but given how far the US is from th
by ta1243 1y ago
Things have been far more polarised since the rise of social media. You can blame fox news and cnn or whatever all you want, but given how far the US is from the days of Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy etc I don't see how you can simply blame "corporate media".
- JKCalhoun 1y agoSocial media is the new corporate media.
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoBoth are true. The end of the Fairness Doctrine normalised the psychotic distortions and lies pumped out by Fox. But the same machine that uses Fox also runs bot farms, astroturfing operations, and curated social media algorithms to normalise even more extreme RW POVs. And here we are.
- lesuorac 1y agoFox is a cable network. Fairness doctrine only applied to limited spectrums (Radio) not to cable.
- detourdog 1y agoCorporate media used to have regulations on how much local media any single company could own. I think the consolidation of media ownership made it easier to have a single corporate vision.
- CaptWillard 1y agoThe Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 has something to do with it. Also, a lot of what has happened goes back to the Church Committee and the fact that no meaningful reforms were made after that.
- JCattheATM 1y agoThe problem is not the people taking advantage of a vulnerability, but the vulnerability itself. That such a significant portion of the US population is so gullible and so ready to believe misinformation that aligns with their desires is the real issue.