To be (sort of) fair, it's been that way for a while now, ne? Seems like politics has been fact-free in the US since Reagan's days, and the UK caught up somewhere around the turn of the century. Television can claim a good part of the honor, with sound bitss ruling, though the papers strive to surpass the vacuousness, breathlessly reporting on every burp emitted by "lovable buffoons" like Farage and Trump.
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Date: 2016-06-25 01:05 pm (UTC)