[munk-a]

We've had a few very prominent conservatively aligned social media outlet - Parler in particular comes to mind as a semi-successful one, but there are a bunch of conservative oriented message boards and news feeds that have existed for quite some time.

I'd strongly disagree that news necessarily involves politics as well, political topics can be mentioned and reference without turning things into a partisan sh*show and it is only recently (probably since about '95) that we've had rabid debate shows like Hardball that really rewarded news outlets for being extremely partisan.

[orhmeh09]

There were laws that Reagan did away with about the so-called fairness of political television broadcasting, which might explain how those shows got more popular. However, I think politics and news generally have been of a rabid tenor since forever.