There is a justifiable fear that the splintering of news sources, first by cable television networks and then by the Internet, is leading many people to live in ideological bubbles, with little access to arguments from opposing political ideologies. While such self-siloing is clearly a problem, a new study suggests the situation isn’t as dire as we might think.
The news diets of the most liberal and most conservative Americans “generally [show] more overlap than divergence,” a New York University research team led by Gregory Eady and Jonathan Nagler writes in the journal Sage Open. CONT.
Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard