The media very rarely makes things up
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The media very rarely makes things up
"The fundamental thing the media does all day, every day, is decide what to cover — decide, that is, what is newsworthy... Here’s the dilemma: to decide what to cover is to become the shaper of the news rather than a mirror held up to the news."
Ezra Klein • Why the Media Is So Polarized — And How It Polarizes Us
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder