Fascinating discussion, with a lot of "Who Knew?!" revelations! It also raises many questions about our rapidly changing journalism/free press/ mass communication industry--from how the historic "army" of investigative journalists has been decimated through the decay of the previously ubiquitous newspaper(s) infrastructure, to the implications of having multiple sole-source internet/TV news options who cater to a very dedicated but narrowly-focused audience (e.g. read "Fox News") versus the broad-based, previously shared national TV and newspaper outlets info sharing. I'm afraid there is no going back on this last point...
Thanks, Luca! No doubt the shuttering of local media has been terrible for democracy. I've been musing on Clay's points about whoever offers an effective opposition having a good sense of how media works now. In some ways, I wonder if an analog approach is a smart one—i.e. more face-to-face interaction. Trump leans in on live events with his followers, and it seemed to really work with AOC and Bernie the other day. So my question is: does an understanding of media now mean a combination of new (e.g. TikTok) and old (e.g. stump speeches)?
Fascinating discussion, with a lot of "Who Knew?!" revelations! It also raises many questions about our rapidly changing journalism/free press/ mass communication industry--from how the historic "army" of investigative journalists has been decimated through the decay of the previously ubiquitous newspaper(s) infrastructure, to the implications of having multiple sole-source internet/TV news options who cater to a very dedicated but narrowly-focused audience (e.g. read "Fox News") versus the broad-based, previously shared national TV and newspaper outlets info sharing. I'm afraid there is no going back on this last point...
Thanks, Luca! No doubt the shuttering of local media has been terrible for democracy. I've been musing on Clay's points about whoever offers an effective opposition having a good sense of how media works now. In some ways, I wonder if an analog approach is a smart one—i.e. more face-to-face interaction. Trump leans in on live events with his followers, and it seemed to really work with AOC and Bernie the other day. So my question is: does an understanding of media now mean a combination of new (e.g. TikTok) and old (e.g. stump speeches)?