So people have speculated that the internet makes people seek out information that simply confirms what they already believe. A new study shows that internet newsconsumers may not be as ideologically isolated as we thought - more in the link below.
http://www.slate.com/id/2252247/
There’s a neat thing Slate made that will check your history and tell you how politically isolated you are. I’m 18% to the left - is that bad?
Sites Visited:
Reddit (23% conservative)
RealClearPolitics (93% conservative)
Salon (34% conservative)
Politico (65% conservative)
Slate (49% conservative)
PBS (76% conservative)
ABC News (60% conservative)
The Huffington Post (30% conservative)
The New York Times (40% conservative)
At these sites, the readership is on average 52 percent conservative, 48 percent liberal
Your isolation index is -18, meaning that, on the bell curve of all readers, your news diet is 18 percentage points to the left.
