Every week or so I glance at cnn.com and foxnews.com back to back (I did it closer to daily, 2016-2020). They seem like almost entirely separate worlds, apart from certain celebrity gossip and human interest stories.
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Imagining Stephen Jay Gould referring to them as separate magisteria (and snickering).
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To my surprise, some replies assume I'm going there for news. I guess it's a sorta secondary motivation, but it's certainly not the motivator. Mostly it's just fascination/curiosity about the diffs in worldviews. Related to this:
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Immediate prompt: one of my near-daily rituals the past few years has been pondering the meaning of the amazing imperturbability of Trump's approval rating (both up and down) compared to other presidents [green is Trump, for comparison].
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I get my news exclusively from twitter and independent political commentators on YouTube. My news universe also looks very different from either of those (to be clear this is entirely due to force of habit and the ways in which someone my age is drawn to different sources).
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This must be a harrowing experience. Before COVID, I sometimes watched cable news when on travel, but now I haven't watched them for more than a year and couldn't be happier :-)
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I just glance at both webpages, rarely for more than a few minutes. I'm most interested in what they're covering, not the details of their coverage (I guess I often read one article?) I find both almost completely unwatchable.
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i did this for roughly the same period of time while working on my dissertation and my brain still feels like one of those screaming rubber chickens slowly expanding
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