Brookings Institution study:

"Conservative podcasters were 11 times as likely as liberal podcasters to share a claim that fact checkers could refute."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/technology/podcasts-steve-bannon-war-room-misinformation.html

To erase this kind of finding, you have to declare "there are no facts, really, just politics." But then there is no journalism, either. Which is exactly where the right wing has gone: disinformation is a myth.

"Mr. Bannon said in an interview that the Brookings report was a 'badge of honor'..."

#uspol #journalism

Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says

A large podcast study found that Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” had more falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims than other political talk shows.

The New York Times

@jayrosen_nyu

"a portrait of reality upon which the citizen can act..." (?)

November 1919:
"The Basic Problem of Democracy"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1919/11/the-basic-problem-of-democracy/569095/

#Media
#Democracy
#BigTech #Elmo
#SiliconValley #GOP
#PlutocratTheatre

Walter Lippmann on the Basic Problem of Democracy

“No man has ever thought out an absolute or a universal ideal in politics, for the simple reason that nobody knows enough, or can know enough, to do it.”

The Atlantic
@TryshHQ Thanks. I have a chapter about Lippmann and his views on this in my dissertation.