During part one of an in-depth interview with Vox, President Barack Obama weighed in on the driving forces behind the current polarization of American politics. Perhaps not all too surprisingly, one of the main culprits the president pointed to was cable news.
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In October, former White House press secretary Jay Carney told CNN’s Brian Stelter that the president does not watch cable news, instead choosing to keep a “healthy distance from it.” Carney described Obama as a “voracious consumer of the printed word,” however, with publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Politico making their way into his news diet.
