Spencer Cox: “The rise of cable news first and foremost, and the need for…”

“There are two things that I think are the focal point of this. And you hit on the first one that I think is very damaging. It was The rise of cable news first and foremost, and the need for content and the understanding by cable news, working with psychologists and psychiatrists of the outreach effect and the addiction that happens through dopamine releases for outrage, which is a real thing. And so then you started to get, not just cable news that was covering what was happening in the country, but you would get to fill in the gaps when nothing was happening.” (42:23–42:41)

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