Why Americans Hate the Media (1996)

(theatlantic.com)

11 points | by bell-cot 16 hours ago

1 comments

  • like_any_other 12 hours ago
    • bell-cot 9 hours ago
      Maybe re-read the Atlantic article?

      At least that article's subtitle, where it says "Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems."

      A click-here-and-get-angry story, about the secrets the "other side's" media is keeping from you, sure sounds like it fits the rap sheet.

    • mindslight 11 hours ago
      I too had wanted to embrace the idea of a race-indifferent society. But given that our country actually had enough seething racism that people voted for a political agenda of severely harming themselves as long as "those people" would get hurt more, I'd say that the media's traditional policy of trying to mitigate those animalistic urges has now been vindicated as being quite noble.
      • rightbyte 11 hours ago
        Yeah I think I both overestimated how "stupid" the establishment was 10y+ ago and underestimated how many that are actually susceptible to tribal incitement.
        • mindslight 9 hours ago
          Yep. I also attribute it to getting older and more conservative. (actually conservative, not this revanchist destructionism cloaking itself in the label "conservative").
          • rightbyte 9 hours ago
            It is an irritating realisation that the ones I though were naive, weren't, but I was for thinking they were naive.
    • strathmeyer 11 hours ago
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