I don’t get why anything is framed like this. Either/or thinking is the other cousin of whataboutism. (That said, of course mass media is a big part of the story. Duh. And the way traditional media got played by Wikileaks in 2016 is still way underexplored). https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/976463153369362433 …
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Replying to @zeynep
Agreed, but it's also an understandable reaction to an election close enough that lots of things could have served as the final straw. "It's Russia's/Facebook's/CNN's/Hillary's/Comey's/NYT's fault" could all be theoretically true if each swayed 77,000 votes out of 136.6 million.
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That's why the "was it this or that" framing is misleading! Also, on what planet is "the internet" or "facebook" independent of what happens on cable news? In 2016, Fox news was explicitly competing with Breitbart because of Facebook.
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It's take-ism. More people need original takes than there are original takes to take.
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I like this take the best! *ducks*
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