'For all the angst about polarisation and disinformation, something very different is in fact going on in news consumption: the mass-media age is ending. We’re returning to a time when most people get almost no news. Growing numbers of citizens are oblivious to current affairs, much like most ordinary Britons before the first popular newspaper, the Daily Mail, appeared in 1896. Opinion-formers who lead the political conversation tend to overlook this shift, because they, by definition, care about news. What happens to a society when the majority switches off?'
https://www.ft.com/content/451e7466-7a91-4784-aa37-02993ff0fc9e
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If I take some end of the centralized gathering and disseminating of news by mediums such as newspapers, radio and television as fact, maybe I don't have to look at it as bad news like Simon Kuper.
After all, the mass media was an important player in the plot that resulted in their demise / insignificance. It was quite heavily involved in the shaping of society, the choice of issues...
More here: https://trojkatretiho-cz.translate.goog/viewtopic.php?p=505&_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en#p505
<- No news is bad news. The end of the mass-media age is nigh, with big consequences for politics
Good to know the facts.
Not so sure it is bad news.
This is bad: ... it took a fictional TV drama to excite the public about the wrongful convictions of British postmasters, after media had reported the scandal fruitlessly for years.
But the total effect? Is it bad news? Not sure.
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