Re(4): What can media do to fix this Posted on September 7, 2022 at 02:42:45 PM by just sayin
People in TV should know, being in the media, that if it weren't for modern technology, wed be as uninformed as the serfs of Midlevel England. The extent to which we humans ARE informed, depends completely on what we DO with it.
We've not strayed all that far from the FCC commissioner Newton Minnow's speech of 1961 calling television The Vast Wasteland.
He wasn't talking about NEWS, for TV news was in its infancy then; it's gotten better but when opinion interfered with the delivery of real news, it's not fared as well as it could have.
My view is that it reached its first peak in the early 1980s when we got satellite, digital video and live remote capability.
While Cable TV gave us many more choices, it also fatally divided the audience and the advertisers that paid for it.
Lets see what happens when WIFI is delivered free by government and is available when Americans are on the road.
The only problem is that newsgathering is very labor intensive so it won't be available in smaller local communities which tend to touch their citizens more often and more directly. Replies: There have been no replies.
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