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That’s the feeling I had reading “Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media” on . The article noted that web traffic has declined for news organizations. To us at , it seems a good sign that people can finally back off the frantic doomscrolling of the Trump era. But treated the story in the way that conventional political journalism treats most issues, by creating a partisan frame. They examined traffic data for 24 news sites, divided into “far right,” “right-leaning,” “mainstream,” “left-leaning,” and “far left.” The in the “far left” group, and on the “far right,” the disinformation hub . Fox News was categorized as “right-leaning.”

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