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Imagine this: you’re sitting with your family at Thanksgiving dinner and the conversation moves to politics: the dreadful, contentious, unwanted divide that gets you a “what-the-hell-are-you-doing” glance from your mother. The conversation is not a conversation at all anymore, its an argument. Your uncle, the one “we don’t really talk to,” begins his oration ofContinue reading “Fox News: An Alternate Reality?”

At the time of Roger Ailes’ appointment to CEO of Fox News in 1996, CNN dominated American news networks. Often taking the position of neutrality, CNN was Americans’ source for unbiased news and stories. That impartiality may have all but fully dissolved by now, but how did we get here? An article from the BBCContinue reading “Fox News and Hyper-partisan politics: How did we get here?”

The media environment has changed drastically since the turn of the century.  The internet, along with social media and online news outlets such as CNN and Fox News, has completely altered the way we consume media. The current 24-hour news cycle we know today is practically unrecognizable from that of even four years ago. WithContinue reading “Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption: Heading down the wrong path?”