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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by dev_dull on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:56AM (#19818976)
> Increasingly partisan news media made possible by more fragmented media (first cable, then the Internet)

Isn’t the entire mainstream media owned by only like 6 corporations[1]?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/these-6...

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by jtaillon on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:24AM (#19819224)
Yup, who make money the more you engage with or watch their advertisers. It turns out anger/rage seems to be the best way to do that. People (on the whole) don't consume political media to be challenged in their views... they get a dopamine hit from hearing that their view is correct and continue in a spiral hating the other side of whatever issue is at hand.
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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by greggyb on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:11AM (#19819104)
There used to be literally three channels. We've doubled!
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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by bilbo0s on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:40AM (#19819374)
Good point.

There's a lot more news outlets than there used to be when I was a kid. No question about that.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by nradov on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:40PM (#19819935)
Well 4 if you count PBS.
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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by greggyb on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:32AM (#19826678)
We've 1.5x-ed!
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