I'm not suggesting individual journalists' attitudes have changed so much as that there has been a generational shift: new reporters are coming into a business significantly different from the one Jim Lehrer was in.
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Hypothesis: The connection between monopoly and trustworthiness in the press works both ways. They're losing their monopoly in part because they're less trustworthy, but because they're no longer people's only source of news, they feel less obligation to be neutral.
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They've had to pick a side, out of desperation. Last sting of a dying wasp.
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I'd wager the underlying cause is the technical revolution. Internet brought scalable two-way communication and broke the monopoly of those controlling scalable one-way comm
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this takes an extremely short historical view of the press. I'd encourage you to look at bias in the press throughout the 20th century
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News is a non-rival, non-excludable good. Once the internet commoditized the collection and distribution of facts, news orgs had to polarize or die.
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It’s a vicious feedback loop
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Feels like an accurate spiral
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I think more properly it’s similar to the advent of regional partisan newspapers in the late 19th century following (Arkansas Democrat, Times Republican) following the spread of the telegraph to deliver national news (1/2)
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The subsequent rise of muckraking/yellow journalism in the Progressive Era of the early 20th Century then precipitated the “use case” of nonpartisan newsgathering. Early 21st century destabilizing due to advent of Social Media has turned the wheel again (2/2)
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