Amy Goodman of Democracy Now: How the Media Is Ruining This Election

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46. The low-information voter is not a new phenomenon

I agree with you that most people don't watch Meet the Press or seek out political information on the web, but that's not the fault of the media. In, say the 1980s, the mainstream media could get away with a lot of BS that they simply cannot get away with today, because now someone online will immediately call them out on it. To me, this is a very powerful development and forces the MSM to be accountable in a way that they did not have to in the fairly recent past.

Edit to add: I realize the latter part of what I said is more in response to another post on this thread and not yours. As far as what you wrote, I think it's unfortunate that people don't spend what would amount to 20 minutes to listen to the stump speeches of the candidates online before deciding who to vote for. I just think it's great that they could quite easily if they wanted to.