Unattributed Informants
Perhaps the next evolution in the news cycle is to have an app that collects stories about issues you care about and compiles them from opposite ends of the political spectrum—sound familiar? Except there’s no ads dispersed throughout the screen, and you don’t know the author or news outlet of the piece. It forces you to process and evaluate the information based on the merits of the arguments and the prevalence of evidence. Because how often do we judge incoming reports based upon the sender? We just might surprise ourselves, with how left or right we may actually be. Look, politics matter. The sooner we can actually focus on public policy, not the political actors and their rhetoric, the sooner we can create a more equal, more just, and more free society.