So--here is the eminent @JamesFallows writing in 1996, at a very different @TheAtlantic
(ht @SpectralKaiser for the link)
The entire piece is very worth reading as (recent) social history, but I found myself thinking about the opening story yesterday.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/why-americans-hate-the-media/305060/ …
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Testable hypothesis, anyway. It's a complex space. That is: I'm not sure this is true, but it seems plausible.
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