One of the strange consequences of reading so much history is that you start to be able to imagine what a historian would write about your own time. It's alarmingly easy to imagine a future historian writing "As China's power grew, America was paralyzed by internal dissension."
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Maybe. FCC revoked the fairness doctrine in 1987, which paved the way for partisan cable news, which is close in time to the beginning of that graph.
That was not the only thing that changed in the 1980s. http://paulgraham.com/re.html
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Great essay, I somehow missed this one
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