“Hey. Why doesn’t anyone write about Y?” With Y, in this instance, being some topic upon which many, many people have expounded, in many, many places, but that they have not personally been exposed to, and thus have come to believe doesn’t exist.'
It’s not that they simply failed to “pay attention,” as we like to mourn; it’s that they have quite specifically organized their news not to tell them about it.
By Dahlia Lithwick
https://slate.com/business/2024/03/news-algorithm-why-weve-gotten-so-bad-at-the-news.html
@corlin "Anyone who was surprised to learn, thanks to Greg Sargent’s great reporting, that large swaths of voters have never even heard of Trump’s overt threats to the rule of law and basic freedoms, hasn’t quite grasped that large swaths of voters don’t read what they read. It’s not that they simply failed to “pay attention,” as we like to mourn; it’s that they have quite _specifically organized their news not to tell them about it_."
@corlin thanks for posting that! Good stuff as always from Lithwick.
@rpardee
Thanks.
I should have put that whole quote in a thread...