Study Links US Political Polarization to TV News Deregulation

[Judi Lynn]

Study Links US Political Polarization to TV News Deregulation

By Darin Watkins, Washington State University News

25 September 15

Increasing American political polarization is linked to television news deregulation following the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, according to a Washington State University study.

“After 1996, we see changes in polarization based on how much television people are using,” said researcher Jay Hmielowski, assistant professor in WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. He conducted the study with Murrow colleague Myiah Hutchens and former colleague Michael Beam, now at Kent State University.

Their work was recently published online in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research (http://ijpor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/07/02/ijpor.edv012.short).

The telecommunications act sought to open markets to competition, but the result was consolidation. This included large companies like FOX and NBC buying smaller, independent TV stations and cable news channels.

More:
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/32607-study-links-us-political-polarization-to-tv-news-deregulation

[pangaia]

1. I do not watch ANY TV news.

Zilch.. nada..
NEWS? What does that mean?

BREAKING, BREAKING.. breaker 10-4

[katsy]

2. Quell supriz

Not.

Yeah they didn't know their shit for deregulation would harm society.

More like they don't care if the public is fed propaganda. It suits them fine.

[PatrickforO]

3. No shit.

Deregulate.

Privatize.

Gut ALL social and safety net programs.

This is the neoliberal dream.

It is our nightmare.

[msongs]

4. sorta sad how many democrats have bought into this. comfortable shoes, anyone? nt

[cprise]

7. Another accomplishment the Clintons can be proud of.

I wonder if media deregulation will come up in the Democratic debates?

[LiberalArkie]

5. I used to get my news from Mad Magazine, then Comedy Central, now just the front page of Reddit.

[Doctor_J]

6. Another dispatch from the department of Duh

[awoke_in_2003]

8. "The telecommunications act sought to open markets to competition,

but the result was consolidation". Consolidation was the plan. The rest of the sentence is BS

[modestomama]

9. The US media is now simply a propaganda bullhorn.

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I turned my cable off in 2009 and have never looked back. Thank god. save your minds folks...and your money. Here's an article exposing the propaganda we are now seeing. https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/28/the-power-of-false-narrative/