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They weren't. Television and especially radio were both cherished sources of reasonably reliable information in the beginning.
by eeZah7Ux 9y ago
They weren't. Television and especially radio were both cherished sources of reasonably reliable information in the beginning.
- dragonwriter 9y agoNo, they weren't. They became, over time, accepted sources of trusted and emotionally engaging information, but IIRC studies many decades ago showed that—controlling for consumption of other news media like newspapers—increased consumption of news content from either or both broadcast media was associated with decreased knowledge of current events. They were never sources of reliable information (and, yes, from early on there were negative reactions against the mass acceptance, just as there are today for social media.)