Newstainment: why the news is bad for you

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How do you like your news? Today, tweets and Facebook status updates can foment political change, but when it comes to explaining complex politics and legislation, they fall way short. Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll of the New Left Media have been in the trenches of our fevered political debate, urging the sign-carriers on both the Right and the Left to get off their talking points for a real conversation about democracy.

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