May 16, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| One of the major driving factors of the sort of extreme polarization that we're living through right now is that most news consumers can very easily go out into the wild, open their computer, turn on their TVs, whatever, and tune in somewhere where they are just being force-fed worldviews and perspectives that confirm all their priors. | |
| If you are a, you know, never Trump Republican, you can just go read The Bulwark and The Dispatch and never leave that space and never have your views challenged. | |
| If you're, you know, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, then it's the New York Times opinion page where you're rarely going to encounter. | |
| Maybe you'll get some David French Republican conservative thought, but you're not going to get intellectual Trumpism there. | |
| And if you're a diehard conservative and you just want to tune into Fox News or Breitbart or whatever it is and never really see anybody criticize the Trump presidency, aside from maybe like Jessica Tarlov or something, then you can do that. | |
| And it's really easy to do that. | |
| And I think the fact that it's so easy to do that is a really... | |
| Scary moment for us in the information ecosystem. | |
| I mean, that's a frightening thing to be operating in from my vantage point. | |
| And it's a testament to just how many news organizations are doing this. | |
| I mean, you know, you think about what media outlets are really making their audience uncomfortable on a regular basis, and there's very few of them. | |
| I mean, I like to believe that we're doing that at Tangle, but I think there's really, really, truly very few of them, and that doesn't seem healthy to me. | |
| For us at Tangle, the solution has been we tell people up front what we're selling, and what we're selling is... | |
| We're going to take you out of the little nice cozy bubble you've been in and you're going to be made uncomfortable by the news that we're publishing because we're going to expose you to arguments from people across the political spectrum and you're going to hate some of what you read and if we're doing our jobs right, some of what you read will feel really representative of the worldview that you share. |
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