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    Vitamin VHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:07pm

    This sounds like good news to me. They know that Fox and CNN are not reporting real news, so they are seeking it elsewhere. I approve of this message.

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      DriveByCommentsVitamin V
      4/05/16 12:10pm

      I’m also failing to see an issue - this seems like a defensive backlash post for the sake of putting something, anything up.

      More people are realizing that the the 24 hour entertainment networks aren’t actually delivering news coverage and are trying to find someplace to fill that void.

      These people trend younger where they do not have the habit of “older” media or habit from when some of the TV news stations were a little more legitimate

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      Miguel SanchezVitamin V
      4/05/16 12:12pm

      Their alternative sources including fuckin BUZZFEED, not the goddamn Young Turks or something.

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    Ed SpockHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:09pm

    Yeah. Since when did the press ever expose anything of importance to the country that we would have not otherwise known.

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      KumichoEd Spock
      4/05/16 12:21pm

      If you have to reach back to something that occurred before I was even born, you’re stretching...

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      NoneEd Spock
      4/05/16 12:25pm

      I’m confused - is your point that this happened 40 years ago?

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    ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:13pm

    Being mistrustful of the press in the extreme is a crutch. Instead of having to grapple with the fact that in order to be an informed consumer of news you can neither be a sheep nor someone who doesn’t believe a word that they read, and that you must grapple with the words, opinions and perspective of people who disagree with you, people would rather just try to find a news source that generally agrees with how they view they world and then place their complete trust in it.

    It’s so much easier. Granted they would never explicitly acknowledge this in their own minds, but I think this is what most people, including progressives, tend to do.

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      DiscoInfernoSupressionSystemReburnsABurningReturns
      4/05/16 12:33pm

      People have grown accustomed to thinking their feelings are more important than someone else’s facts.

      Feeling good about what they hear is more important than the truth of what they’re hearing.

      Facts themselves are increasingly meaningless in favor of subjective emotional fulfillment.

      “I disagree with that. Here’s why that’s incorrect / Oh shit, I may have to change my worldview a bit” is out.

      “I disagree with that. The fact you’re disagreeing with me is harmful. It’s not my job to educate you about my position, you’re just wrong. Here are also a bunch of rhetorical tricks I’ve learned so I don’t have to support anything I say or how I’m treating you.” is in.

      The intellectual and emotional distance between someone who only trusts FOXNews and all of its unhinged, hateful, self-contradicting propaganda and someone who believes only the most purestrain progressive No True Scotsman news sources is generally very, very small.

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      altheman0767DiscoInfernoSupressionSystem
      4/05/16 12:37pm

      I mean just look at the comment sections on any websites, it's usually an echo chamber and if you break rank and think differently the mob comes after you.

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    KumichoHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:08pm

    So kids who grew up with Fox News feel that the media is biased, particularly against them?

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      aa96Kumicho
      4/05/16 12:14pm

      Maybe if they read a fucking newspaper from time to time.

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      Kumichoaa96
      4/05/16 12:19pm

      You mean like the Washington Post and others who dutifully ran pro-war stories in the leadup to Iraq in 2003?

      Certainly nothing biased about that...

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    JustActSurprisedHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:07pm

    Welcome to the “Freedom of Speech means Freedom from Criticism lol snap this k” generation.

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      BobbySeriousJustActSurprised
      4/05/16 12:10pm

      God they are so insufferable.

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      9-LinesBobbySerious
      4/05/16 12:17pm

      No, they’re special. They’re parents told them so...

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    carpetboxerHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:17pm

    Would you rather be stuck on a desert island with these fuckers or millennials?

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      freaks go all the waycarpetboxer
      4/05/16 12:30pm

      So what you’re really asking is who would you rather be eaten by, since clearly they’d sacrifice the crotchity old weak one first.

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      carpetboxerfreaks go all the way
      4/05/16 12:33pm

      he’s too lean,too many burpees!

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:14pm

    Well, let’s be fair here. I mean, we’re in a new age of journalism, where all sorts of digital/social media are more immediately available than more traditional journalistic sources.

    And regardless, if they're so hot and bothered to be "left alone", and want to tell their story on social media, then they're not really getting the pointlessness of their organized protest in the first place, and can be safely ignored.

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      det-devil-ailsIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      4/05/16 12:22pm

      Yeah. They should be left alone to tell their own story!

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    det-devil-ailsHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:21pm

    “would go to newer, digital-only news sources such as BuzzFeed, Mic or Huffington Post.”

    15 NEW HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS!!! NUMBER 14 WILL SHOCK YOU!!!

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4det-devil-ails
      4/05/16 12:30pm

      A New Sidewalk Was Installed On The Quad. You Won’t BELIEVE What Someone Wrote On It!

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      det-devil-ailsEvenBaggierTrousers4
      4/05/16 1:48pm

      SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION! FORCE THE WHITE HOUSE TO ACT!

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    Lando241Hamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:09pm

    You (Gawker) are not the press. Scrolling through Reddit all day and taking “stories” from there and rewriting it doesn't make you a member of the press.

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      caekislove-caekingitupLando241
      4/05/16 12:18pm

      As if upliking a bunch of stories all sourced from 4chan is any different.

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      GoEatSomeFewdcaekislove-caekingitup
      4/05/16 12:23pm

      That's the point. Reddit doesn't think it's press; Gawker is the delusional one.

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    ghostandgoblinHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 12:53pm

    It’s epistemic closure. The same thing that turned the right into the freak show it is today. These kids trust their buddies on Twitter and listicles on ideologically friendly websites like Buzzfeed.

    It’s not a good thing.

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      ohcomeonpeopleghostandgoblin
      4/05/16 3:22pm

      To be fair, just because journalism used to be (in aggregate) “better” doesn’t mean that the majority of idiots in the world weren’t relying mostly on word-of-mouth news explained to them by their equally uninformed friends.

      Just because the platforms change doesn’t mean people do, and that’s what makes 99% of discussions about “kids these days” so stupid and transparently ego-stroking. It may have been less easy to access terrible information back in the day, but history very clearly shows us that people weren’t better informed, more intelligent or less biased because of it.

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      ghostandgoblinohcomeonpeople
      4/05/16 4:17pm

      Strictly speaking, back in the day, the political parties were both far more diffuse, and had a much wider range of viewpoints. Republicans had Rockefeller Republicans and Democrats had Dixiecrats and so forth. I would argue this is because, in part, people were not able to just go out and read only their viewpoints or interact only with people who agree with them on everything. Everyone watched ABC or CBS and they had to show all viewpoints. The differing viewpoints were in the air, so to speak.

      That’s all changed. Ever since the rise of talk radio and Fox News, Republicans could live in a bubble where only their worldview was confirmed. And sure enough that led to radical polarization and the abandonment of moderation in the parties. Now we see young liberals doing the same thing, albeit with different media.

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