[noelwelsh]

I believe another important piece is the Fairness doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine) which forced news outlets in the US to present balanced news. Reagan killed this in 1987. It's made it much easier to live in a bubble. Fox News (and possibly most of the current US TV news; I'm not sure) couldn't exist if this doctrine was in place. The US has allowed many policies that has divided its people.

[vedranm]

Find it funny that you mention Fox News as biased. I find the other big three (CNN, NBC, ABC) unreadable/unwatchable, while Fox News is kind of OK. I prefer RT to any of them, though.

[intended]

Wasn't there a famous case when Fox news said it wasn't news?

[dagw]

No, their argument was that not all show no Fox News where news. They where trying to make a distinction between news shows and editorial shows.