Most of the distrust of the media is found among conservatives. Statistician/poll guru Nate Silver, a onetime baseball stats nerd who has somehow become the High Data Mullah of All Things since he began writing about politics, summed it up in simple terms. “Republicans hate the media a lot, and Democrats hate the media a little.” 2. Those discontented Republican voters, the thinking goes, are really upset because they just can’t deal with reality. This is because, as comedian Stephen Colbert and enlightened press figures like Paul Krugman of the New York Times alike have been quick
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