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[blackjedii]

The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You ThinkHow did big media miss the Donald Trump swell? News organizations old and new, large and small, print and online, broadcast and cable assigned phalanxes of reporters armed with the most sophisticated polling data and analysis to cover the presidential campaign. The overwhelming assumption was that the race

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[hikerpoet]

This has some interesting and probably accurate points, but I feel like it doesn't do enough to differentiate traditional journalism. And I do agree with the advent of online shares, the major city newspapers have infiltrated the mid-states on a higher level (although AP pick-ups were always a thing, even when media was much more trusted) and how the disconnect is there.

But even in small towns, all over the country, traditional journalism always included trained experienced professionals. Sure, bias and some unethical folks existed, but they and their even more experienced editors put their bylines out there *always* (which doesn't always happen on some of these actual fake news sites), and accountability was very high with major impacts if falsehoods and major, often even minor, inaccuracies were revealed.
Aside from the National Enquirer, which I'm pretty sure the vast majority knew was a joke, there were so so so many checks and balances there.

This year, I personally know quite a few people, who I *thought* were reasonably intelligent and capable of critical thinking, who ACTUALLY BELIEVED CLINTON PERSONALLY KILLED DOZENS OF PEOPLE AND RAN SEX RINGS OUT OF PIZZA SHOPS. Their criticisms and lack of trust really weren't surrounding judgments surrounding Latin America or Libya. I refuse to believe their belief of this as well as some of the more out there stuff about Obama and whatever else all has a direct line of having to do with cultural divides and isn't related to their own hate/racism/sexism. Which, yes, doesn't develop in a vacuum, but I don't think they are without accountability either.

I sympathize with some of the points, but I feel like the out-of-touch liberal elite aren't such a direct full line of blame to the rise of Fox News, to the Glenn Becks and Charlie Sykes who said to read news critically and that it tends to have a liberal slant, perhaps due to some of these reasons but who are still saying "Er, THIS SHIT isn't what we meant, and this extreme non-critical reaction isn't what we were calling for", to the Trump propaganda approach, to the rise of the alt-right Bannon/Milo trolls, who tend to be white dudes in urban centers as well.