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Published · transcript-backedRoss Douthat: belief
17 Jan 2018 Conversations with Tyler Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)
“I don’t want to, having done my Butlerian Jihad rant, I don’t want to oversell the horrors of social media, because I think if you look at a lot of the polarization in American life, it’s being driven by an older technology: cable television.”
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- 17 Jan 2018
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…Do you think that social media is contributing to polarization and a breakdown of discourse more generally? And, especially, can you comment on its effect on journalists and journalism? Sure. I don’t want to, having done my Butlerian Jihad rant, I don’t want to oversell the horrors of social media, because I think if you look at a lot of the polarization in American life, it’s being driven by an older technology: cable television. And that the effect of cable news on older Americans probably goes a longer way to explaining some of our polarization right now than does social media. So that would be my caveat. With that being said, I think the effect of social media is its . . . Tyler had an interesting — you had an interesting post about this today or yesterday. Yes, today.…
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