Professor Thomas Patterson: ‘the partisan divide’ is ‘a media divide’

Dec 8, 2019News

Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum and AI World Society Innovation Network, Professor Thomas Patterson, spoke on CNN about his new book “How America Lost Its Mind”.

Harvard professor Thomas Patterson, author of the new book “How America Lost Its Mind,” says “motivated reasoning” is at work in the impeachment inquiry. People “start with a bias and then we try to find facts that kind of align with that,” he says. “We have an enormous capacity for selective reception.”

The original video from CNN can be found here.