The short answer is market demand. The longer answer winds through the aftermath of Watergate, academic elitism in the mainstream media, and much more. From AM talk radio in the 1980s to the rise of Fox News, the right-wing media has been on a march both in regular broadcast and online (as that medium arrived), and now there is a whole ecosystem that caters to a certain political view. In this video, we learn more about the rise of right-wing news and how it has come to have an outsized effect on American society.

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