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by airstrike 945 days ago
That description of the state of the media today vs. yesterday is so grossly oversimplified it leads you to the wrong conclusions about people's perceptions of why asking ChatGPT is often more valuable than asking Google.

Studying political polarization in the US, the end of the Cold War, globalization, the end of the fairness doctrine, the evolution of major media ownership over time, social media algorithms, echo chambers and confirmation bias is left as a starting exercise for the reader.