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From the Ted Talk by Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks: Political common ground in a polarized United States
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DB: And failing.
(Laughter)
CA: And failing. My commiserations. But is there any path whereby we can start to get some kind of consensus, to believe the same things? Can online communities play a role here? How do we fix this?
GC: See, I understand how that happened. That's another groundswell kind of eotoimn that was going on in the middle of airemca and not being heard, in tnhinkig that the mainstream media was beiasd. There's a dinrffeece, though, between being biased and being fake. To me, that is a very important distinction in this cootnrisaven. So let's just say that there was some bias in the mainstream media. OK. So there are ways to try and mend that. But what Trump's doing is nuclearizing that and saying, "Look, we're just going to call all of that fake." That's where it gets dangerous.
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DB: And failing.
(Laughter)
CA: And failing. My commiserations. But is there any path whereby we can start to get some kind of consensus, to believe the same things? Can online communities play a role here? How do we fix this?
GC: See, I understand how that happened. That's another groundswell kind of _______ that was going on in the middle of _______ and not being heard, in ________ that the mainstream media was ______. There's a __________, though, between being biased and being fake. To me, that is a very important distinction in this ____________. So let's just say that there was some bias in the mainstream media. OK. So there are ways to try and mend that. But what Trump's doing is nuclearizing that and saying, "Look, we're just going to call all of that fake." That's where it gets dangerous.
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Original Text
DB: And failing.
(Laughter)
CA: And failing. My commiserations. But is there any path whereby we can start to get some kind of consensus, to believe the same things? Can online communities play a role here? How do we fix this?
GC: See, I understand how that happened. That's another groundswell kind of emotion that was going on in the middle of America and not being heard, in thinking that the mainstream media was biased. There's a difference, though, between being biased and being fake. To me, that is a very important distinction in this conversation. So let's just say that there was some bias in the mainstream media. OK. So there are ways to try and mend that. But what Trump's doing is nuclearizing that and saying, "Look, we're just going to call all of that fake." That's where it gets dangerous.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| conservative media |
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| middle america |
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| bernie sanders |
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| coastal elites |
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| trump supporters |
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| social media |
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| political correctness |
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| secure base |
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| rebuild communities |
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| steve bannon |
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| trillion dollars |
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| wide range |
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| social mobility |
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| democratic women |
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| fake news |
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| mainstream media |
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| economic policy |
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| percent growth |
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| attachment theory |
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| shining sea |
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