lrt yet again you can also see the huge difference between who gets their news from TV and who gets it from like, twitter livestreams of shit while they happen
people talk about fox and it's of course a huge fucking problem but msnbc and CNN will just tell people complete and total horseshit to an utterly locked in audience
notable too that the current president of CNN is the guy who made the apprentice
notable too that the current president of CNN is the guy who made the apprentice
and it's not just "oh that tracks why CNN has such right wing lean" but also why CNN structures shit in a very TV drama or pro wrestling way. it's not about news, it's about what gets the ratings pop
one way you could put it is that elections are basically sweeps week to them
remembering when i had to explain to my mom multiple times that the reason the capitol hill staff weren't doing anything was because they supported the people breaking in and literally let them in and took selfies with them. just shit that is in the news for a second if that
also in retrospect very much explained a lot of the difference in reaction to the baltimore uprising while i was living there and they were back northeast, panicking about it
it wasn't just generational or distance differences, it was "i checked twitter, they checked MSNBC"
it wasn't just generational or distance differences, it was "i checked twitter, they checked MSNBC"
the people that still get their news pretty much entirely from TV - fox or cnn or msnbc - i don't know how you puncture that bubble, at least at scale. cuomo is considered a hero to them and punching through that takes unbelievable effort
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