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News Sucks Because We Consume It Differently Now
President Trump addressed Congress on March 1st, and as soon as it was over, headlines popped up at every major news outlet in the country.
And they were all very, very different. It shows us a bit about how news sucks… but why does it?
Why Congress Doesn’t Care What You Think
A paper from 2014 by Martin Gilens and Bejamin Page shook the bedrock of the American democracy by showing quite decisively that the likelihood of a policy being adopted in Congress is almost entirely unrelated to the amount of preference that citizens have for the policy. The preferences of economic elites (rich folks) and special interest groups (generally representing businesses) are far more likely to be enacted by Congress. The wedge in American politics may explain this perfectly.