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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

2. Almost all media is now niche media. Lots of seemingly popular/influential news products have audiences of only 10s or 100s of thousands of people or low 7 figures at most. That's not a lot in a country of 327 million people. That makes media analysis harder than it once was. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2019 Hibernated

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I have quite a few different thoughts on this. 1) People inside the bubble (includes Ezra & me) have difficulty understanding what people hear outside the bubble. That's a challenging problem. Our gut impressions are often way wrong. It's good to validate against external data. — PolitiTweet.org

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

This is interesting, but I think cable news and newspaper coverage are now lagging indicators of digital, Twitter,… https://t.co/7qg2plEfhD

Posted April 3, 2019 Hibernated

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3. There are a lot of very complicated feedback loops between and among "the audience" and "the media". It's hard to know who is influencing who. The causality is difficult to tease out. It's especially difficult in the primaries, where "party elites" also play a role. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2019 Hibernated

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