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This is not a new point, but: Why does this literally only ever travel in one direction? We have spent literally four years trying to figure out what drives conservatives! Why are they not asked to understand what drives those on the left? https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1325131658039873536
The assumption, I guess, is that because the media is based in cosmopolitan cities like NY, DC, and LA, “””””liberal values””””” permeate our journalism and storytelling.
But in an age of conservative epistemic closure, we’ve known that’s not true since the George W. Bush years!
But in an age of conservative epistemic closure, we’ve known that’s not true since the George W. Bush years!
When I came out, a ton of my red state relatives and friends’ only frame of reference for trans women was what they had heard on Fox News. They were very kind! But surprised to learn certain basic facts of my existence (like that I took hormones, etc.)!
I do not think bubbles serve anyone particularly well, but one bubble is a lot more permeable than the other, and it’s not the one Kasich’s statement suggests.
Or, to put this another way: The New York Times has spent four years earnestly trying to understand Trump voters, sometimes well and sometimes poorly.
Did Fox News or other conservative outlets earnestly try to understand Clinton voters? At all?
Did Fox News or other conservative outlets earnestly try to understand Clinton voters? At all?
Not doing journalism to understand the American left subconsciously implies that we all already understand the left and that, therefore, the American right is some different species of human entirely, which only entrenches anger and resentment.
I’ve gotta stop tweeting about this before somebody at Vox says this is my new beat.
Yep. And with the rise of Sinclair, this rightward lurch only become more true. The “liberal media bias” thing was always a way of the right working the refs, mostly, but it exists here and there. And yet you never hear about “conservative media bias.” https://twitter.com/sgcafan/status/1325149036492464128
