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Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10
Quartz's charts and visualization service The Atlas, has released an insightful chart that shows the "total reader interactions with articles on Facebook" between October 11, 2016 and November 10, 2016. What's surprising is that Breitbart beat a list of establishment media outlets in total Facebook interactions. By far the source with the most interacted articles was Fox News, as it had more than 44 million people interact with its articles. CNN and Breitbart were neck-and-neck with more than 18 million interactions.
Like the NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post, and LA Times instead of infotainment news sources like CNN, Fox News, and Breitbart. Not to say the newspapers I listed are not without their own institutional bias but at least they have actual investigative journalists on the payroll and at least try to be objective.
The saying goes:
The news isn't the news. The news is how you should feel about the news. And the MSM lost it's 5th column power (rooting out corruption) a long time ago...and this election it lost it's persuasive power.
In fact it almost seems (like in your case) that there is some sort of neocon badge of honor in being willfully ignorant of the facts.
Actually, there's quite a few people out there who are willfully ignorant of the facts, and proud of it. In fact, I would say that most Trump supporters are indeed willfully ignorant.
How else could you vote a person into the most powerful office on the planet who blatantly lies far more often than not, has been married 3 times and flaunts every other norm while running for office and is also willfully ignorant themselves?
What are centrist views then? What's an example?
ACA is based on a paper from a right-wing think thank, so why is it "left"? Single payer would be "left" I agree, but ACA looks centrist, or even slightly right to me.
Gun control? Most of the population agree to the limits and background checks proposed by Hillary. Wouldn't that make them "centrist"?
And why is climate change "left"? The vast majority of the world doesn't believe it's a hoax. The right are very lonely on the hoax position.
Table-ized A.I.