Re:America is facing an epistemic crisis
by sremani on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:34AM
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I have to agree with you, one of the reasons could be the "left" propaganda machine were traditional gate-keepers, so withholding data would be easier way to lie, and the "right" propaganda machine is disruptive and attention-seeking given its untraditional foundation, needs "sensationalist red meat".
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Re:America is facing an epistemic crisis
by denom on Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:23PM
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The traditional post Eisenhower media infrastructure _was_ essentially conservative.
I think your dichotomy here is not left/right but populist/non-populist (aka liberal[1]).
[1] the term liberal has been overloaded for some time now. But it’s important to understand the distinctions. The gist is that most of the deeply conservative thinkers in our post WW2 history believed in a liberal socio-economic order: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism