“Left-wing loons?” “Right-wing nuts?” Actually, this is the REAL bias driving most stories:
People’s heads explode when they find out that — many years ago — I worked as a television producer at both MSNBC and Fox News. “So what are you?” they’ll invariably ask, meaning am I a far-left, free-stuff-for-everyone loon or a far-right, lying Russian-puppet nut job?
You do know, of course, that we’re paying a price for this. Even as we criticize Washington politicians for their inability to tackle big problems — “compromise” is a dirty word — our own unwillingness to reach out to the other side is fueling everything from workplace stress to broken friendships. One study has claimed that “one in 10 couples ended their relationships over political disagreements, with millennials parting ways at a particularly high rate of 22%.
But Twitter and Facebook are also what I call subsidiary platforms, meaning much of what you find there migrated from elsewhere, notably cable news. Clips from shows rocket around social media, amplifying the views — right or left — of those posting them. Consumers of media today generally aren’t looking to learn from or engage with others. They’re looking for validation of what they want to believe, and the typically anti-Trump MSNBC and the pro-Trump Fox provide it.
As usual, the three major cable news networks covered it all heavily, with armies of journalists on Capitol Hill, in London and elsewhere trying to dig up whatever scraps of information they could. Count me among the overwhelming majority of Americans who don’t bother watching. It might seem odd that a longtime Washington journalist like me, who’s been trooping to the White House, Capitol and other places for many years, doesn’t watch cable news, but I don’t. It’s not overly necessary, it’s a time suck, and, perhaps most importantly of all, I don’t think it’s particularly healthy, either physically or mentally.
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