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Thought experiment: A group of Harvard students came up with "a prototype of an imagined news outlet covering U.S. politics." shorensteincenter.org/an-experiment-… They began with a long list of problems, including addiction to conflict, centrist bias, lack of context, short attention span. 1/
They said they kept coming back to the larger cultural problem. "The intense polarization of the population, especially where information is concerned." And so: "We decided to try to address that problem with a ‘platonic’ website which might explicitly try to bridge divides." 2/
I spoke to this group about the "citizens agenda" style of election coverage. We had a spirited discussion. The prototype they came up with can be compared to a similar thought experiment I included in my 2011 post, "Why Political Coverage is Broken." pressthink.org/2011/08/why-po… 3/
The Harvard project was led by Adam Moss, the former editor of New York magazine and one of the most respected editors in all of journalism. (Well, coastal journalism.) Most impressive to me is that it wasn't a class. Just a teacher and students who wanted to do something. 4/
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