More context from the article:
At the turn of the millennium, newspapers relied on classifieds for an average of 30% of their revenues. Martin and his colleagues found that the loss of this revenue led newspaper executives to cut costs largely by shrinking local political news coverage.
The reduction in coverage was most pronounced before primary elections.
The reduction in staff covering politics made it harder for voters to differentiate between moderates and extremists in partisan primaries, and allowed extreme candidates to do better than they did before.
This makes sense, and it explains a lot, actually.
And to be clear, it’s not just craigslist as a culprit here, but it’s such a controlled A/B test that the effects are reliably measurable.
In the original paper, they also observed reduced turnout for House/Senate elections (which the article didn’t emphasize as much, but is defininitely there): https://academic.oup.com/restud/article/92/3/1738/7665573?login=false#517516514
You can’t just blame the fucking media. People at large are at fault for thinking republican bullshit is even halfway normal. They elected a pussy-grabbing, child-rapist felon who openly professes how he’d fuck his own daughter. To say nothing of his failed marriages, failed business, never having worked a goddamn day in his life, openly criminal associations and activities, and myriad public debacles.
Go on and marinate on that for a minute.
Propaganda works. Yeah, people are stupid, but if you spend decades destroying education and teaching disinfo, well… The results are predictable
You can hate them all you like, but you do have to look at the problem logically if you want to fix it
Nobody is “just blaming” any one thing except in your head. The headline says “helped fuel” not “single-handedly caused.”
Maybe you’ve been affected by a related trend - that of not reading properly and just replying with whatever half-baked idea was already bouncing around?
Or maybe I’m sick of people avoiding hard truths and drawing unwarranted conjectures.
We study these questions using the staggered introduction of Craigslist (CL)—the world’s largest online platform for classified advertising—across U.S. counties between 1995 and 2009.
So well before TACO Don was even a candidate.
Like that matters? You think fucking Gingrich and all those cunts were halfway normal? The last decent republican was Eisenhower.
Ah yes, Eisenhower, famously a good guy for running fucking Operation Wetback.
Dang, TIL!
The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.
It’s all relative, isn’t it. Would you rather him, when the tax on rich people was over 90%, or any of the vile cunts after him?
Well, for me personally, since I’m an anarchist, I’d rather have neither. Power corrupts, and giving too much unchecked power to any individual will lead to harm. Even FDR, one of America’s “best” presidents, also oversaw redlining and the Japanese internment camps.
Let’s not forget his high achievement of winning a Golden Razzie award for his terrible performance as….himself. Yes, he achieved worst supporting actor playing himself. Not only that the movie is a perverted B- dumpster fire.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying this is anywhere near as serious compared to the points you’ve made. Those are truly harmful things done to others. To know he was in such a low ranked movie and had the worst performance of everyone in it while trying to portray himself brings a bit of joy.
That’s pretty fascinating that they used the staged expansion of Craigslist to allow confounding factors to be accounted for.
