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> No, it hasn't

This was a 2 minute search of Google Scholar:

^1 "...the mainstream press in America operate within a narrow range of liberal beliefs... only a narrow band of liberal thought is supported by the press"

^2 "Our results show a strong liberal bias"

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Kuypers/publication...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/120/4/1191/192...

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The sad thing about left or right bias is that it is all the same thing. The left doesn't care about what the right says, and the right doesn't care about what the left says.

Unfortunately, there is no more compromise in today's world. People just want to win because even giving up even a small amount of ground to an opponent is considered a complete failure.

I personally blame social media for a lot oft this. Mob mentality has been a problem since forever, but Twitter has created a nation-wide 24/7 mob which is angrier than ever and never disbands. I blame that for the elections of President Trump, Congresswoman Ocasio, and other such divisive figures. I also think it's responsible for the phenomenon of each "side" seeing the other as morally wrong, inuhame, and almost not people. It's been known for a while we're meaner on-line because we can't see any one on the other side; I think that's a significant part of the problem.

This, of course, begs the question: how do you fix it? I don't know.

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