Right on. I’m sure there’s a sense in which you’re right; I’m not a historian, but history is full of counterexamples so we both have a partial picture probably. All I can say for sure is that as a person living in 2025, our media is problematic in a unique way. The amount of social media news consumed is at an all-time high, and social media is on average less accurate about facts than professional news. What’s ironic is that the internet and related communication tech means there really is a huge potential for democratic, productive media; more than any other time in history. I feel like the increase in information people get means that they understand, at least, that they should be critical of news media, and channeling that criticism into a forum of news meta analysis would be dope.
About your historic points specifically, I read that at some point there were local, labor union and citizen sponsored papers in many places in the US and Britain that were not corporate owned, and their customers were the readers and not advertisers; that’s a fundamental difference from most mass media. I’m no expert, my source for this is the intro to Herman/Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, if memory serves.
Right on. I’m sure there’s a sense in which you’re right; I’m not a historian, but history is full of counterexamples so we both have a partial picture probably. All I can say for sure is that as a person living in 2025, our media is problematic in a unique way. The amount of social media news consumed is at an all-time high, and social media is on average less accurate about facts than professional news. What’s ironic is that the internet and related communication tech means there really is a huge potential for democratic, productive media; more than any other time in history. I feel like the increase in information people get means that they understand, at least, that they should be critical of news media, and channeling that criticism into a forum of news meta analysis would be dope.
About your historic points specifically, I read that at some point there were local, labor union and citizen sponsored papers in many places in the US and Britain that were not corporate owned, and their customers were the readers and not advertisers; that’s a fundamental difference from most mass media. I’m no expert, my source for this is the intro to Herman/Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, if memory serves.