If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.
If you go to certain cable news shows, you're generally going to hear the viewpoints that you already have reported back to you. I think there's no harm in that.
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
The Washington media crowd, including conservative media, preaches to the choir of news junkies.
When there is this giant narrative, when there is a singular story out there like there is right now about the Russians hacking the election so that Donald Trump would win - when the media is pumping it and the Democrats are quoting the media and the media's quoting the Democrats and it's just like a giant blanket thrown all over the country - don't believe the story. It's made up! It is a script. I call the daily soap opera.
Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.
