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« on: December 07, 2021, 04:43:07 AM » |
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It's a legacy effect. We're judging "the media" as CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, because they have been the dominant players for the last couple decades. But good media outside of those three does exist, even if it's not thriving or mainstream (yet). The media won't be reformed because cable news suddenly fixes itself, but because people will just move on to other sources. Rather than becoming dumbed-down or sports-like, my biggest concern for the news media going forward is that it will become more and more siloed than it already is. People won't have even a basic set of facts they can agree on to debate because something that gets wall-to-wall coverage on OANN doesn't even begin to enter the discussion on something like Democracy Now, and the audiences of each won't even be able to agree on a common reality, let alone reach consensus on any particular issue.
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