I understand that the fragmentation of opinion and news through podcasts, youtube, social medias, and yes, even substack is largely due to stressors + incentives + revenue of traditional media.. but this fragmentation of opinion/stories is also a symptom of this extreme polarization. I mean to say, this substack is part/symptom of the problem. The number of newspapers, magazines, blogs and podcasts I have to read is unmanageable. I love reading and my academic accounts give me a lot of access simply not available to others.
It is a commonly repeated "secret" that NYTimes reporting doesn't do any justice to any viewpoint that is not theirs. I use the NYTimes example only because being the largest newspaper in the US, its leading (shaping?) reporting has been reported in many other publications. But to get multiple lens, I have to read so much instead of relying on one which can do reasonable justice to the spectrum. Believe me, we normies are not the problem.
Re media diet, I've found the daily Tangle newsletter to be outstanding in presenting a diversity of views on the news of the day.
You know, I’ve followed Isaac for some time and always loved the idea of Tangle, but I’d never actually signed up for it. Good excuse to do that!
I understand that the fragmentation of opinion and news through podcasts, youtube, social medias, and yes, even substack is largely due to stressors + incentives + revenue of traditional media.. but this fragmentation of opinion/stories is also a symptom of this extreme polarization. I mean to say, this substack is part/symptom of the problem. The number of newspapers, magazines, blogs and podcasts I have to read is unmanageable. I love reading and my academic accounts give me a lot of access simply not available to others.
It is a commonly repeated "secret" that NYTimes reporting doesn't do any justice to any viewpoint that is not theirs. I use the NYTimes example only because being the largest newspaper in the US, its leading (shaping?) reporting has been reported in many other publications. But to get multiple lens, I have to read so much instead of relying on one which can do reasonable justice to the spectrum. Believe me, we normies are not the problem.