Aura7541 on 27 June 2017
| Final-Fan said: Specifically addressing Aura7541: I think you overestimate the ability of the sources you mention to perform the services the "mainstream media" currently provide. Most obviously (to me, at least), the Youtube political commentators might be able to fill in for MSM political commentators, but they are totally dependent on news providers: they do not themselves do the legwork of producing news, or at least comparatively little. Alternative media can be strong organizations with the ability to do serious investigative journalism, but they can also be total propaganda pushers or fabricate or doctor evidence. A big downside to democratizing our news sources is that it's harder to keep eyes on a thousand news providers to keep them honest rather than just a few. Independent journalists theoretically present the same problem, but I personally think these individuals would present less bias in aggregate compared to tons of small organizations. However, freelancers would have fewer resources with which to do research and investigative reporting. Big news organizations aren't going away, and if they are, it's bad news for news. |
I merely mentioned that cable news is declining and people are increasingly looking at alternative outlets for their news. Whether those alternative outlets are capable of replacing corporate media (and I don't think they will, but will eat up a signifacant chunk of their viewership) is another discussion.
