Has anybody read the book "the more you watch the less you know"? It's a bit old now, but that actually gives it more of a prophetic feeling if anything. Written in the 90s it was about the direction the media was moving in towards how they will avoid complexity, or nuanced reporting in favor of infotainment. Essentially any news that's entertaining will be the order of the day. But it leads to the dumbing down of america because people just regurgitate stupid partisan talking points, and non news and figure they must know what what's going on because it's on the news.
It's just gotten worse in the past decade or so sense the book was written. The pinacle was the debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous where they didn't actually ask questions so much as grill them on stupid news scandals they themselves (the media, not the two of them personally) created. A self feeding cycle of ignorance.
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