I’m becoming increasingly convinced that this is a demand-driven problem. It’s on us. If we want our biases to be comforted, we are willing sliding back into the Partisan Press Age.

There is a grand tradition of this going back to the nation’s founding where proto-bloggers like Thomas Jefferson would write under pseudonyms about the Washington administration to attack his future opponent John Adams. The vice president also employed this tactic, of course.

Today, under the guise of authenticity, we have “news influencers” who simply read and react to others who gather the news and then put on a Red or Blue hat POV to connect with their audience.