The State of Political Media

November 2022
Various Authors (Caroline Jo)

Why the media is so polarized — and how it polarizes us (Ezra Klein; Vox, January 2020)

All Politics Is National Because All Media Is National (Dan Hopkins; FiveThirtyEight, June 2018)

Local News and National Politics (Gregory J. Martin and Joshua McCrain; American Political Science Review, 2019)

U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided (Mark Jurkowitz, Amy Mitchell, Elisa Shearer and Mason Walker; Pew Research Center, January 2020)

Our society is consuming new, fragmented, reaction-inducing media like we consume fast food. Will we develop the cultural self-discipline necessary to live with it in a healthy manner? What might some tools for creating a healthy media diet look like?