I’m not the biggest fan of listening to medias touch (too many commercials since they changed their podcast format, but they’ve brought on some excellent people over the past year, and do great work.
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Segmented media focused on providing stories that resonate with a select audience - like Meidas - are a big part of the problem though. Saving (or at this point reviving) democracy requires aligning around common truths. Meidas doesn’t do that when they’re explicitly geared to the left.
Having a left-leaning bias has nothing to do with being truthful or not. I’d argue, in fact, left wing personalities are less likely to spread lies. Part of that reason is people on the left hate being lied, and are very unforgiving if they find out they’ve been lied to.
You’re missing the point. National identity and collective truth require common sources of information. A segmented media environment with left/right narratives shatters that, and it’s hard to see us getting out of our current predicament in this media environment.
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