Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper?
by harshreality on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:56PM
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Not new. See: McVeigh, Kaczynski, 1960s race riots, etc.
What's new is the media being able to saturate everyone's attention with these events. In the past, there would have been some TV and radio news, and articles in each newspaper, but those didn't occupy people's attention like internet news and regurgitated social media news does now.
What’s new is Americans killing each other over it.
The polarization is extreme in part because news sources now need clicks to survive, and Outrage gets more clicks than reason.
End result is some Americans become so outraged they loot and burn cities and in some cases, kill. And seemingly, their peer pole finds the mayhem understandable.
That’s what’s new.