2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: To all the people who pushed Hillary on us even though she is less electable [View all]anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)Anyone who's relying on Fox News or any other network/cable behemoth channel for political news is choosing to be poorly informed - and many people do make such a deliberate choice, because they just don't enjoy thinking about politics and would rather turn to news sources that validate their existing views - just like far right people like sources like Breitbart and forums like Free Republic, and far left people like sources like TruthOut and so on. You can lead horses to water, but you can't make them drink.
My personal rule of thumb is that the quality of news articles varies in inverse proportion to the number of adjectives in the news story. The more characterizations there are, the more propagandistic and less informative the article. Sadly many people on all parts of the political spectrum like validation more than they like information.