Good morning. I’m avoiding Omicron/covid news for a couple of days, my kid’s at-home preschool class quarantine here (and spouse’s struggle to get any professional work done) is stressful enough.
“January 6.” My condolences to any of you out there with this birthday. It won’t go down as hard as 9/11 in the public association… but it will prove to have staying power. This was the most frightening display of MAGA/GOP would-be-fascism we’ve seen yet. A literal violent attempted-overthrow of our nation’s Capitol. Extremist thugs armed with loaded guns, viciously attacking Capitol security and police, and roaming the halls calling for “Nancy”. A far greater tragedy was narrowly averted by the grace and smarts of one single US Capitol police officer, Eugene Goodman.
There is a lot of talk and analysis, in these difficult years, about Americans’ news/information intake, and how wide the partisan gap is. If you watch CNN or NBC or ABC, you come away with one sense of publicly shared reality. If you watch Fox News and even more so the lesser media positioned as more extreme than Fox, you come away with a wholly different — and contradictory — sense of publicly shared reality.
Never more so than today, January 6, 2022.
Here are a screenshot of CNN.com and a screenshot of FoxNews.com, right now. Sunrise (east coast) on the 1 year anniversary of the insurrection. What does it continue to mean, that Americans form entirely different views of reality itself, based on whether their preferred media is Trump-friendly or not?
Clik here to view.
Clik here to view.
