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Here's Why Partisanship is Skyrocketing

The Political Orphanage

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Cable Television's Negative Effect on Information

I'm worried in terms of electoral politics right now I think that a lot of my friends view the current partisan rank where we have as kind of like a weather pattern it's just sort of random and we're in a storm right now but it'll pass. As somebody that worked in cable television news is horrible it's a horrible medium it's a very very bad for communicating important ideas or complicated ideas. You're much more likely just to pick up anecdotal hobbyist outrage of the other team than you are to actually learn anything useful for your life or civics, he says. Cable television is probably gonna follow the same model that newspapers did which is to say the biggest gang buster profit year

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