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A veteran reporter on how to fix the news
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Do You Think Demand Is Uncontrollable?
I think we've done a pretty decent job of explaining why obsessing over national news is bad and useless. But I wonder if now the problem is the demand for the national politics or the politics of sport and theater that we get from the national press are just insatiable. There has been a self-reinforcing cycle, vicious cycle or however you want to classify it where politicians know that spectacle attracts more audience but also people can't find their own immediate lives interesting too.
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