MSNBC is the network where Lawrence O’Donnell made fun of the Mormon Church, trying to do the same thing that Fox does, and that is to provoke.
People who watch conflate commentary with news and feel that they’re hearing the news, they’re not. They’re hearing people talk about the news and offering opinions, and that’s not the news, and it’s highly inaccurate and highly hyperbolic.
The danger is that the outrage industry is adding to the dysfunction of our Congress by making it difficult to compromise. So people who are compromisers are denounced on talk radio. The outrage industry feeds on that.
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