This article from today’s New York Times is kinda interesting. I’m fairly Apple-neutral, but I enjoyed seeing the fanatics get called out a bit.
We talked about something similar to “hostile media phenomenon” in the DOE weapons non-proliferation seminar I went to a couple of years ago at Mizzou. No matter how neutral an article about nuclear technology is, someone is bound to think it biased. I’ll probably post on this issue later–it poses interesting problems for journalists, as you’d expect.
I read this article too, and it made me consider not how people view news media, but how they view perspective politicians. I drew some interesting conclusions. Namely that this phenomena accounts for the lack of political candidates with a relatively moderate outlook.
Interesting point, Jim. Do you mean because moderates get attacked by both sides?