"Diversity is not our strength": Cincy's own Ramaswamy 2024!

[Dill]

(10-13-2023, 08:10 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Views and clicks = money for the media
A couple years ago that Facebook whistleblower said something like (I didn’t follow too closely) their algorithms showed you content that would anger and outrage you on purpose.
What are you more likely to click on? The story you could give two shits about, or the headline that gets your blood boiling?

I wonder if everyone means/sees the same thing when they refer to "division" in the U.S.

E.g., a few years back when there was a wave of anti-Sharia legislation crossing the U.S., I saw that as "pushing division" for sure, 
but I didn't blame those segments of the media who were merely reporting it.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-paste-legislate/many-state-bills-one-source-behind-the-push-to-ban-sharia-law/
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/05/anti-sharia-law-bills-united-states

Same for the more recent wave of ant-CRT legislation. It was just crazy how so many states passed bills against something that didn't seem
to exist in schools, at least as part of the curriculum. From my side of the divide this looks like a spun up faux issue to scare people and get
votes. From the other side it must look like a defense against a racist ideology permeating education. 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2022/02/16/teacher-anti-crt-bills-coast-to-coast-a-state-by-state-guide/?sh=1b601c714ff6
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/map-where-critical-race-theory-is-under-attack/2021/06

If we are talking about the MSM, I don't see a strategy of "attention and divide." I just see reporters doing their job. I WANT them to report
that news. Maybe some of you are thinking more of social media, or maybe a well known news organization with a more profit-oriented 
business model which pulls back on accurate reporting if they start losing viewers. 

Now the country is still divided over whether the last presidential election was rigged. Two or three news sources excepted, I do not see
how the media could be held responsible for that division, which still makes our legislature dysfunctional in a dangerous world. 

One reason I found the Conservative News link above interesting was because it seemed to present the heated Hannity/Ramaswamy fight
even handedly. I think they reported it because it was news, not to divide anyone. 

Hannity is part of the media, but in this case also part of the story. That could be media "creating division." 
But I think I'm missing a larger picture if I view it that way.