Americans blame news media for the polarization of the country
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | So this new poll says that Americans fault the news media for dividing the nation. |
| 0:06.0 | Nearly three quarters of adults say the news media is the reason that we're so politically |
| 0:12.3 | polarized in the country. |
| 0:14.6 | Just under half say they have little to no trust in the media's ability to report the |
| 0:20.2 | news fairly and accurately. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, and this poll was interesting. |
| 0:26.2 | It was done by the Associated Press. |
| 0:28.7 | And I think what you have seen because you have certainly as the internet age has become |
| 0:35.2 | a thing. |
| 0:36.2 | And obviously people have information from numerous sources at their cellular telephone |
| 0:41.2 | at all times. |
| 0:43.4 | With the emergence of things like Breitbart and Newsmax, obviously once upon a time |
| 0:50.0 | of his drugs, drugs has changed dramatically though since being sold. |
| 0:54.3 | And then obviously the offshoots of things like that, which have become kind of the new |
| 1:00.1 | from a podcast perspective daily wire, et cetera. |
| 1:04.4 | People are wise to the crap their government is pulling it used to be you almost didn't |
| 1:08.0 | know unless CBS NBC, ABC covered it or CNN in the early days of cable news covered it. |
| 1:18.0 | Or you listen to Rush Limbaugh, that was that's part of why Rush became so popular. |
| 1:23.1 | He was the one guy in the early days of talk radio who was telling you the things you |
| 1:28.7 | weren't hearing anywhere else and was opening people's eyes. |
| 1:31.8 | Now they have access to this stuff from so many different sources. |
| 1:36.2 | And so I think people, the device, the divisiveness in the country is because people are aware |
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