There is so much bias and bluster in cable news that it’s hard to know what to believe.
Depending on the network, the coverage can seem like bouncing between alternate galaxies.
And overall trust in the media has of course plummeted to new lows.
Most people don’t even trust the fact-checkers, so we don’t have a basic agreement on what’s true or not in this insane presidential race, a common base of information that everyone can then debate.
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That’s true even of the podcasters and social media influencers who have made such an impact in the mediasphere.
Fox News draws the most scrutiny, of course, because its audience far eclipses that of its two main cable news rivals. But there is almost no scrutiny of MSNBC as an uber-liberal organization. Maybe that’s because so many New York Times and Washington Post …