I think this election signified the death of mainstream media and the rise of independent media.
Which is fantastic IMO.
You learn more from 10 mins of JRE than you do from 10 months of the same formulaic, tired coverage you get from the MSM.
You learn more from 10 mins of JRE than you do from 10 months of the same formulaic, tired coverage you get from the MSM.
FYI, here are some better sources of information about public policy issues:
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals
https://www.ashecon.org/american-journal-of-health-economics...
https://www.apha.org/publications/american-journal-of-public...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/annals-of-epidemiology
https://asc41.org/publications/criminology-an-interdisciplin...
Maybe I qualify that if TV news in its current form gets replaced by Joe Rogan. It is basically a wash. But the death of print media is really an awful awful thing, because that's where the death comes from, that is what is served to be the historical record in recent times.
You also gain more misinformation in 10 minutes of Joe Rogan experience than in many other forms. The guy has not met a conspiracy theory that he doesn't love. And he clearly cares above clicks over truth.
CNN isn't much better, but they at least have a journalist standard they have to theoretically align to.
Now if you're going to call MSNBC and Fox News mainstream media, well that's a big problem.
In a democracy, voters tend to vote more for people than for policies. (It is less irrational than it looks: personalities don't change much, while policies can be thrown out at a moment's notice, or never taken seriously in the first place.) In that sense, looking deeper into politicians' minds is a valuable service, a counterweight to the usual photo-op game and wide fake smiles shining on billboards.
Now, don't get me wrong, that is a lot better than the flotsam out there, and admittedly it is even better than the paper thin bullshit CNN and the like trot out, but it isn't smart. It's more not-stupid.
If you have clips that will change my mind, I'll happily watch, and try to get over my Dana White hatred spillover bias.