VAMatt on 10 December 2018
| NightDragon83 said: The unholy alliance of today's social media platforms from Facebook to Google / YouTube to Twitter is truly something to behold. It's like going back to the days of having just 3 network channels to chose from on TV, all with the same common goals and agendas. Except the power that today's social platforms wield in shaping public opinion and controlling how the public interacts with one another is something not even Orwell could've dreamt up. |
I can't agree. People are cynical these days, and they assume (correctly, generally) that everyone is full of shit. Pre-1980s network TV news (in the US, at least) was much more influential, because viewers believed it (probably incorrectly).
