The Importance of Cable News

Sally Kohn: It makes an enormous difference if you compare the quality of political news that is on the internet to like the best of print newspaper reporting. "It's so much worse than the social media dynamic because it's not even a bubble," she says. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Fox News were already added to this media ecosystem before there was the internet,. But they're doing in here as a proxy for internet age used by older Americans who have sharper ideological polarization.