AOC: The concentration has gotten to such an extreme degree that you can literally name the billionaire who owns the outlet. Bezos owns The Washington Post. You have these deals with the Ellisons… You have CBS that has been taken over by a charlatan…
We’re not just talking about the 24/7 channels — we’re talking about some of the most historic journalistic institutions like CBS, not to even speak of the decimation in local journalism. The gutting of local journalism is the seed for a lot of this.
On top of that, people have been dealing with the pain of family members or friends that are on the other side of the political aisle. And there’s also, I think, a personal and emotional pain sometimes of feeling like you, as the person right in front of your loved one, are not listened to or thought of — and your input is not as important as this mainstream/Fox News — like a TV channel. Yes, there are political differences there, but people feel, “How am I less important than the TV?”