TV news is dying and is being replaced by stuff like this. On the whole I consider this a bad development but we have no control over it:
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Just 18% stress over alternative relaxation activities.
Reinforce what they want to believe or lose their eyeballs. Ergo, revenue.
We and our biases have created the disinformation problem.
The fact that they established themselves in Trump 1 meant they had a baseline of listeners/viewers who have probably come back to them. People seek out content that reinforces when their pref party is out of power. Prob new people have found them too.
The bloated MSM has needed a shake up for years.
I have been hearing rumors of indie news collectives - using Meidas as example - beginning to organize. 🤷🏼♀️💪🏻
Also seems perfectly situated between #1 and #3
What’s definitely under pressure is 24/7 cable TV news, long morning shows, and the Sunday morning shows. A glut of opinion/analysis.
"If you spent weeks working on something and you try and show the shades of gray in it and then someone says he "disembowels" this issue, it's like...'I didn't say I was going to disembowel! You're making me promise things I didn't promise.’”
~ John Oliver, Feb 27, 2017
They’re just as bad as Turning Point USA.