What might be shallow controversy to you maybe something deeply important to somebody else. It's all about perspectives' @paulg
If there's a shallow controversy happening at the same time as something deeply important, the press will cover the former.
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Which means there is a bias in the press more pervasive than any left/right one.
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Some journalists do a decent job of resisting being pulled right or left, but few avoid being pulled toward shallowness.
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It's much easier to replay a meme and comment than to explain complex subjects to people eating their cereal and trying to run out the door
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The press will always cover the event which the largest part of the population is eager to talk about it.
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The press' incentive (engaged population) does not weight in the importance of the event, so the press doesn't weight it in on their choices
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That's why they're being fed the red herrings.
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Yes and president uses it to the utmost. How many serious things happening in background while cabletiffs the dominant story
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Exactly that is the whole.
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