I'm not even talking exclusively about the young, but even middle-aged and up who previously were well-informed and grounded.
What happened is around 2015 news organizations were majority democrat (approx 2/3rds), Trump got nominated and elected, and because he broke their minds they fired / me too / forced out any conservative until they are now less than 5% even with closet conservatives.
Extreme example is Tom Ashbrook. Everybody lauded On Point for nearly twenty years, but a year after Trump he got me too'd, an independent investigation totally exonerated him, but WBUR/NPR fired him anyway because they didn't want to work with even a conservative-leaning person like him. Now NPR has zero people you could even suspect are closet conservatives.
There's no dissenting voices in their newsrooms and their audience hasn't figured that out.
I'm not even talking exclusively about the young, but even middle-aged and up who previously were well-informed and grounded.
What happened is around 2015 news organizations were majority democrat (approx 2/3rds), Trump got nominated and elected, and because he broke their minds they fired / me too / forced out any conservative until they are now less than 5% even with closet conservatives.
Extreme example is Tom Ashbrook. Everybody lauded On Point for nearly twenty years, but a year after Trump he got me too'd, an independent investigation totally exonerated him, but WBUR/NPR fired him anyway because they didn't want to work with even a conservative-leaning person like him. Now NPR has zero people you could even suspect are closet conservatives.
There's no dissenting voices in their newsrooms and their audience hasn't figured that out.