I don’t think that helps, but public opinion of the media is pretty low and fewer people are reading the news all the time, so I don’t think that explains it.
The real problem is that the average person who doesn’t think about politics much and assumes the truth is somewhere to the left of what Republicans are saying and to the right of the Dems constantly hears Dems like Schumer Jeffries Pelosi Hoyer etc. talk about how we need to strengthen the border and fund the police and other stupid shit like that, and it ends up making things like the suspension of asylum rights and giving billions of dollars of taxpayer money to for profit organizations seem like a reasonable middle ground.
Public opinion of the media going down is also driven by the right wing. Hell, I don’t think the media minds it, given that most of those companies also have stakes in other shit that’ll, at least in their minds, benefit from a corporatist government.
I don’t think that helps, but public opinion of the media is pretty low and fewer people are reading the news all the time, so I don’t think that explains it.
The real problem is that the average person who doesn’t think about politics much and assumes the truth is somewhere to the left of what Republicans are saying and to the right of the Dems constantly hears Dems like Schumer Jeffries Pelosi Hoyer etc. talk about how we need to strengthen the border and fund the police and other stupid shit like that, and it ends up making things like the suspension of asylum rights and giving billions of dollars of taxpayer money to for profit organizations seem like a reasonable middle ground.
e; … buuut, I also feel compelled to point out that the one place I was able to find a recording of this town hall was through a “news” channel that was actually founded by this lawmaker, so the media environment is not not a problem I suppose
Public opinion of the media going down is also driven by the right wing. Hell, I don’t think the media minds it, given that most of those companies also have stakes in other shit that’ll, at least in their minds, benefit from a corporatist government.
If you include social media algorithms as “news” the point still stands. TikTok, Facebook, Twitter all want right wing in power.