News silos cannot protect audiences from post-truth because both exploit the same biases

Evidence

Just as there is no escape from cognitive bias, a news silo is no defense against post-truth. For the danger is that at some level they are connected. We are all beholden to our sources of information. But we are especially vulnerable when they tell us exactly what we want to hear. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the ‘gated communities’/echo chamber literature and connects to my Islamophobia and the Novel notes on self-selecting readers. — connects to: Journalistic both-sides coverage can be weaponized to manufacture public ignorance — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 628; Cognitive biases alone cannot explain post-truth without later media factors — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 95; Evenhanded journalism can itself bias public scientific belief — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 61 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Evenhanded journalism can itself bias public scientific belief #exemplifies (0.85) — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 61
• Journalistic both-sides coverage can be weaponized to manufacture public ignorance #expands (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 628
• False equivalence between sides is itself a hallmark of post-truth #expands (0.80) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 15
• Cognitive biases alone cannot explain post-truth without later media factors #qualifies (0.75) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 95
• Denouncing biased material does not neutralize its persuasive effect #corroborates (0.72) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3259