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Let me ask our esteemed readers. Does anyone care about this who DOESNâT work for TPM?
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Haha! The one thing liberals and conservatives agree on - Buzzfeed is the most distrusted name in news.
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Liberals rely on several different outlets for information, but never Fox News. Conservatives, on the other hand, overwhelmingly trust Fox more than any other source.
Only relevant part of entire article.
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âŚand the runners up are Blech!, Limpballz and Insannity. Should BuzzFeed be unable to remain the most distrusted, the runners up will vie for the crown.
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I smell another pulitzer
Blame it on the dog.
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The money quote from the story:
Liberals rely on several different outlets for information, but never Fox News. Conservatives, on the other hand, overwhelmingly trust Fox more than any other source.
The rest of it is media masturbation.
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Where is TPM on this chart?
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I donât know, itâs interesting that two of the sources conservatives trust for their news, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are strictly propaganda outlets.
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Love that chart. Nice visual display of the conservativesâ penchant for âif they ainât saying what I want to hear, then they is lying to me.â
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Conservatives refuse trust any news sources except for those with explicit right-wing bias. Not a shocker there.
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Auntie Beeb, PBS, and the network newscasts fare well. Will file this away to use when the Faux Not Really News crowd starts bleating about viewership numbers.
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Now youâre just being hypercritical to be hypercritical. Is it groundbreaking and electrifying? No. But it still provides news about findings that contribute to our growing understanding of the careful construction of an alternate-reality bubble the conservatives are involved in, why their policies, proposed solutions and agenda so consistently fail to match the evidence and reality around us, etc. That construction project, as it were, has taken off greatly in the last 6 years and keeping tabs on it is important.
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Nowhere that I can find.
But that doesnât mean consistent liberals necessarily embrace contrasting views. Roughly four-in-ten consistent liberals on Facebook (44%) say they have blocked or defriended someone on social media because they disagreed with something that person posted about politics.
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Yes, so much so that I bookmarked it. The graphâs information is interesting, revealing, curiously provocative, and potentially useful.
Well, there are contrasting views and then thereâs just willful ignorance, followed by active malevolence.
Conservatives today are incapable of something as mild as âcontrasting viewsâ; their domain is exclusively the other two.
I think eventually people of normal intelligence decide they just arenât worth the effort - thatâs why they get blocked.
Willful ignoranceâŚitâs the conservative way!
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Fair enough point, but I think thereâs a bit of a difference between refusing to go to or, in particular, TRUST (wchih is what the survey was about) an ostensible authority figure on a subjectâŚor at least visit that site to see what theyâre saying and inform yourselfâŚversus blocking annoying douchebags who get political on Facebook (particularly in light of the dynamic where Facebook is pushing those posts in your face when they get made, not leaving you to decide whether to go find them). What the chart is showing is that the conservatives are quite happy to simply limit their exposure to only those things they agree with and deeply, categorically distrust those âauthoritiesâ who arenât affirming their predisposed beliefs, while liberals are at least exposing themselves and open to trusting far far more sources. I honestly donât like the stat you citedâŚI think itâs bunk data, makes for a poor comparison and is fraught with confounds.
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BuzzFeed is news?!? I thought it was for children. Little children, as in 3 year olds.