Thanksgiving arguments? Blame the media's hypocrisy
News agencies create the polarization they pretend to help solve. Here's how to gently guide people toward truth.
Each year, the media runs stories about people arguing with loved ones over Thanksgiving dinner. News agencies present themselves as giving you solutions for handling America’s polarization.
They do this without mentioning, or showing any awareness, that the media itself is polarizing America through an onslaught of lies. That’s why Thanksgiving might be the second most hypocritical day on Big Media’s calendar, after Memorial Day.
This year, 19% of Democrats and 9% of Republicans expect arguments about politics at their celebration, according to a new YouGov survey. There is a way to handle this that can actually work and help spread truth. On this holiday week, I’m popping in with a mini-episode to tell you about it.
It includes a clip from Leslie Zane, brilliant author of The Power of Instinct, whom I interviewed in a previous episode. She explains:
“The terrible polarization, the fact that people can’t discuss politics over dinner, over Thanksgiving. All of this is because our Republican and Democrat connectomes have become so extreme.”
See a transcript below.
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Transcript
Josh: are a couple of examples of what the media does every year. First NPR.
