This is kinda exactly the...near Abelsonian structures I want to catalog. If you raised this point with some people, "fuck you." Even though you're just describing a graph structure over beliefs. I don't think this helps as solvent but I'd really like to see way more of them.
"But mostly what America has right now is a thousand-pound-gorilla media juggernaut on the right, operating nineteenth century style, coexisting with other news outlets trying to keep up while making fitful efforts, twentieth-century style..." yep