Well, always good advice to seek out a range of reliable inputs, but i am not convinced it explains what happened yesterday.Hillary won a majority of the votes cast, as expected, with less error in the pre-election national polls than usual. The polling in 4 states or so was off by more like 5 points, and unfortunately those turned out to be critical states.
It may be true that the two halves of our deeply polarized country do not understand or listen to each other, but that was not particularly on view last night. The fact that the smaller half has, for the second time in five elections, won the election has more to do with 18th century fears about democracy than 21st century communication bubbles. On Wednesday, 9 November 2016, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > For years, liberals have accused conservatives of "living in a bubble." It > turns out the progressive bubble was just as disorienting. Time to turn off > Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, et al. They weren't lying to you, > but they obviously were just as ignorant of Republicans as Rush Limbaugh, > Bill O'Reilly, Hugh Hewitt, et al are of Democrats. > > There are a number of things that must be done to reform the system, but > chief among them is to change our expectations/demands of the media. Let's > face it, whichever your preferred US news outlet is, it only earns money by > providing what people want, as opposed to providing information people > need. Look at the trending topics of Facebook and Twitter. Look at the > headlines on Buzzfeed and HuffPo. Those stories you feel do not apply to > you... an overwhelming number of Americans disagree with you... those are > the Americans who elected a president last night, the ones who were catered > to, pandered to, and spoonfed what they wanted, not what they needed. > > The late George Carlin once lamented, "Think of how stupid the average > person is... and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." Part of > that is the fault of a deeply flawed education system, but part of it is > the fault of journalists whose jobs are dependent on the number of eyeballs > they can attract. > > If you find yourself in constant agreement with the media, let that be > your first warning sign that you might be in a bubble. > > https://youtu.be/AyifuNC0MT8 > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tvornottv%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
