The Georgia example is instructive in illustrating exactly how much of our conflict is downstream of the broken media.
The media's false reporting about new election legislation in Georgia whipped up a controversy that left millions of people grossly misinformed, frightened voters, mired major corporations in high-stakes public relations frenzies, distracted the political discourse, and furthered the country's divisions.
Without the media's legitimization of a partisan narrative, concerned employees wouldn't have been reaching out, the external pressures of a PR threat would have been negligible, and the corporations could have focused on the business of taking us on spring break and making our mixers.
There is a long list of headline news the legacy media has gotten absolutely wrong in recent years.
The botched Georgia story, which even Democrats now believe the media botched, should induce some humility in the legacy press.
Given the unlikelihood of that course correction, consumers can help by becoming skilled news readers and supporting new media.
In short, the media is no longer a secondary problem because of its partisan bias.
Defeating the legacy media's stranglehold on information delivery must be a top priority for the left and center.
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