Media critic Obama is worried that ‘balkanized’ media is feeding partisanship

Posted on AllSides March 28th, 2016
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President Obama recently referred to himself, only half­jokingly, as the “cool early-adapter president” regarding the use of digital technology to communicate with his supporters. But after having so successfully leveraged the Internet to circumvent the mainstream media, Obama is not sounding so bullish of late about this era in politics he helped to spark.

In the waning days of his presidency, Obama has expressed misgivings about the roiling tone of the 2016 campaign season, in which social media, partisan websites and saturation coverage have made it easier for candidates to...

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