{"id":381182,"date":"2018-10-16T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trapped-in-information-bubbles-consequences-of-the-medias-polarized-trump-coverage-video-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:49:32","slug":"trapped-in-information-bubbles-consequences-of-the-medias-polarized-trump-coverage-video-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trapped-in-information-bubbles-consequences-of-the-medias-polarized-trump-coverage-video-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in information bubbles? Consequences of the media\u2019s polarized Trump coverage (VIDEO) \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shrill media reports about Donald Trump\u2019s alleged praise of Confederate General Robert E. Lee underscore the president\u2019s deep-rooted racism, or America\u2019s fake news epidemic \u2013 depending on where you get your news from.<\/p>\n

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The recent soundbite controversy began after NBC claimed<\/a> that Trump had heaped praise upon Lee during a speech \u2013 sparking an avalanche of indignation from liberal outlets. The network corrected its story two days later, conceding that its video report \u201clacked the full context for Trump\u2019s remarks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Depending on who you ask, the incident proves that Trump is a white supremacist, or illustrates why the media can\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n

RT\u2019s Caleb Maupin explored the separate information bubbles that liberal and conservative Americans seem to live in \u2013 and the consequences of the growing polarization.<\/p>\n

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Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shrill media reports about Donald Trump\u2019s alleged praise of Confederate General Robert E. Lee underscore the president\u2019s deep-rooted racism, or America\u2019s fake news epidemic \u2013 depending on where you get your news from. The recent soundbite controversy began after NBC claimed that Trump had heaped praise upon Lee during a speech \u2013 sparking an avalanche […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}