Comment by ck2
4 years ago
Media doesn't make the divide. Ideology makes the divide.
People don't drive around urban in massive trucks rolling coal and/or own a dozen guns because of their news source, their news source is because of what their "world view" is.
Not everyone can be right. Without the media to tell people that they are right, how else will they know?
The reinforcement and advertising loops are real and effective at creating and expanding the divide.
Perhaps you don't recall a time before there was such a thing as Fox News. Back when the hardest new choice was: Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, or Tom Brokaw?
>Not everyone can be right. Without the media to tell people that they are right, how else will they know?
Not every media corporation can be right.
I totally agree with this, and I don't know why you are getting so many downvotes. When Fox news called Arizona for Biden, many of their viewers were mad and there were anti fox news protests because their typical audience was mad they weren't being told what they wanted to hear.
In a capitalist nation where supply and demand is everything, some people treat the news and facts and information like a product, and when people hear things they don't like they'll find someone else to give them stories they want to hear like Trump won massively and this election was stolen.