343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of Tone in News Reporting
The press is a business right and so they have structural biases where they're going to report on bad stuff. So you could see a story that well trump said this today and it's not true or you know obama's the health care plan first went online today and it was a disaster. People tend to interpret it if it's against your party they tend tointerpret it as a partisan bias when it's just sort of these other kinds of um biases but so it's also sort of weird too i talk about something called the hostile news um hostile media effect which this is also sort of strange too.
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