http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/renee-tibbs/ Renee Tibbs is a freelance writer currently finishing off a Master of Communications at La Trobe University, where she also edited the online magazine Upstart. She contributes to several music magazines and blogs at duckdownthealleyway.wordpress.com. As well as writing, she likes dogs, sci-fi, the writing of Matt Taibbi, and a nice cold pint. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/do-you-ever-really-listen-to-the-other-side-of-the-story/ “As the number of available outlets for political news grows, so does the tendency of citizens to self-select which news to consume and which to ignore.” So says Georgetown University’s Rebecca Chalif, in her 2011 study Political Media Fragmentation: Echo Chambers in Cable News. This statement seems obvious and fairly innocuous on the surface. Thirty years ago, people were vastly more confined in how they consumed their news - it was perhaps three TV channels and one or two newspapers. According to the Australian Market and Social Research Society, the media has become far more fragmented over the last 15 years. Free-to-air TV has gone from five to 17 channels with over 120 subscription channels available, and we have over 600 newspapers and 1,500 magazines available to us. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Renee Tibbs) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/do-you-ever-really-listen-to-the-other-side-of-the-story/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/do-you-ever-really-listen-to-the-other-side-of-the-story/#item6708 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:45:46 +0000 Renee Tibbs | Author bios | The Punch