[toddmorey]

Facebook's model of popularity and personal relevance to the top will never be the right platform for news. It alarms me that it's the #1 news source for like 70% of adults in the US.

More alarming is how this trend is matched with the move away from hard news towards 'pundit celebrity' commentary by almost all networks.

I think there's something in the human psyche where the best feelings come from confirmation of your own biases. This hack wasn't useful when only a few network news programs had to appeal to mass audiences, but it's provided really useful as media has splintered and become personalized.

I have this weird personal exercise where I pull up 5 different news tabs all at once. It's AMAZING how different the world looks from different websites, all coving the same events from drastically different perspectives. There has always been slant, but it's become 10x worse in the last decade.