What Happens When You Force a Liberal to Watch Conservative "News"
I did not choose the experiment. It chose me.
I was housesitting for a friend. Their living room television ran Fox News for roughly eight hours a day, every single day. Within 48 hours I was a different person. Short-fused, restless, sleeping in fragments. I wrote it off as work stress and moved on.
Then one day I spent the whole afternoon with headphones on, just music, no news cycle bleeding through the walls. By evening I felt genuinely lighter. Not a little better. Dramatically better. I did not know why and I was not going to interrogate it.
The following morning I walked into the…
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