Media Diet

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“One of the biggest challenges we have in our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of fact. . . . 

“What the Russians exploited, but it was already here, is we are operating in completely different information universes. If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than if you listen to NPR.” 

—Barack Obama, 44^th U.S. president, interviewed by David Letterman on “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” Netflix, Jan. 12, 2018. Click here for story. Click here for video excerpt.

• Editorial Comment: In the media universe, you are what you eat.

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