Two recent major studies show how the consumption of, and trust in, American news outlets is dangerously polarised - Europe should take note, warns Christian Christensen
As someone in the US you’re not that far off even with the sarcasm.
A lot of us are still blind to it, but around the 2010 period we had a massive consolidation of news media by major corporations. The entirety of our “legacy media” are corporations that only care about profit and creating a “news product” for their intended audience. I can’t think of any well known publication that is “independent” from corporate propaganda influence let alone political. The right actually does recognize this to some extent and get really irritated about focus on social issues related to identity as that’s the only “safe” conversation for corporations to have that feed their intended “news product audience.” So they see that news as manufactured and it reenforces their desire to seek “other media” that confirm their biases.
What I do know is the right wingers are having a feast. Their media embraces the worst of their far right troglodytes as they always embrace the Republicans mission of feeding the wealthy. The so called “left wing” media will join in on the bashing of anyone to the left of Joe Biden as they also aim to protect the status quo of “feed the wealthy.”
There’s no real culture war, there is only class war. :/
Thanks for the detailed perspective. And I’m pretty sure you can’t say class war, or you’re immediately enemy number 1. At least for a good amount of people. 😅
As someone in the US you’re not that far off even with the sarcasm.
A lot of us are still blind to it, but around the 2010 period we had a massive consolidation of news media by major corporations. The entirety of our “legacy media” are corporations that only care about profit and creating a “news product” for their intended audience. I can’t think of any well known publication that is “independent” from corporate propaganda influence let alone political. The right actually does recognize this to some extent and get really irritated about focus on social issues related to identity as that’s the only “safe” conversation for corporations to have that feed their intended “news product audience.” So they see that news as manufactured and it reenforces their desire to seek “other media” that confirm their biases.
What I do know is the right wingers are having a feast. Their media embraces the worst of their far right troglodytes as they always embrace the Republicans mission of feeding the wealthy. The so called “left wing” media will join in on the bashing of anyone to the left of Joe Biden as they also aim to protect the status quo of “feed the wealthy.”
There’s no real culture war, there is only class war. :/
Thanks for the detailed perspective. And I’m pretty sure you can’t say class war, or you’re immediately enemy number 1. At least for a good amount of people. 😅