Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda - Columbia Journalism Review
This article is only for teachers, not for students. Yet, it is essential for understanding the media environment they explain to students. This is worthwhile PD reading for anyone who teachers students about the news and social media
The primary explanation of such asymmetric polarization is more likely politics and culture than technology.
Use of disinformation by partisan media sources is neither new nor limited to the right wing, but the insulation of the partisan right-wing media from traditional journalistic media sources, and the vehemence of its attacks on journalism in common cause with a similarly outspoken president, is new and distinctive.
Our data strongly suggest that most Americans, including those who access news through social networks, continue to pay attention to traditional media, following professional journalistic practices, and cross-reference what they read on partisan sites with what they read on mass media sites.