Media supplies people with an internal dialogue to deal with changing positions
From Darkhorse Podcast
This is a very interesting little conversation about how the corporate press's propaganda works. You have people wanting to believe something, but they can't come up with an argument for it, so the media gives them an argument that they know others will also hold. It doesn't really matter if the argument doesn't make sense, because they aren't going to have to defend it.
The media is solving a coordination problem for people seeking out confirmation bias.
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