I think that is wrong - it's more like The Frame Problem.<p>It's not really that right wingers think the news is lying to them in a direct sense. It's more like they believe the entire frame of discussion is wrong. I'm not an American but I'd concur with that sentiment in general when I listen to NPR. You could listen to NPR for years without realizing the experience of many Americans directly contradicts the story themes on offer, yet many other Americans do have an experience which is sympathetic to the same themes.<p>This is because of social class. Different people have different experiences - but because of social stratification what has happening is that some people <i>consistently</i> have a difference experience of the world.<p>In Hidden Brain - an NPR podcast - a social science researcher and mother relates how she had the impression most mothers breastfed their kids, bought organic food, went to yoga. It's only through her analytic research that she came to the understanding this is a minority, a sort of elite.<p>A zip code away - you'll have some people who have had their car broken into 17 times, burglarized 5 times - every time by people with the same skin colour.<p>I leave the results to your imagination.<p>NPR and Russia Today will make one of those scenarios sound normal, the other abnormal but they're the result of the same sorting affect.<p>Scott Alexander makes the point that this clustering affect can happen even when you go out of your way to prevent it. He says he doesn't have any Christian Republican friends on his Facebook account - but they're half the country. He didn't try to do this - it just happened that way.<p>The probability of this happening by accident is astronomical - yet each one of us is in a similar peculiar bubble. Worth reflecting that this makes it harder to understand each other.