Summary:
This article describes the broken media environment created by partisan news outlets that intentionally report political news from a biased position and how it has created suspicion and antagonism against traditional news media. It touches on how news environment allows viewers to tune out news media that they disagree with or completely ignore news altogether. The article also investigates the effects of partisan news on the viewers' perception of media in multiple laboratory experiments, finding that people have more hostility toward news outlets that they disagree with than news outlets they agree with.
Response:
There is a lot of information in this article that could help me with my essay expansion. I delves into the biased and unreliable side of the traditional media of television, magazines and newspapers. It also provides a counter example to Williams point about democracy of media allowing viewers to ignore news that they disagree with. It is important to realize that no matter what source you get your news from, there will always be a component of bias within it.
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