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Excellent, excellent points. What country are you from, if I may ask? Also, I'd rewrite your opening rhetorical question for clarity: Was TV, as a homogenizin

Excellent, excellent points. What country are you from, if I may ask? Also, I'd rewrite your opening rhetorical question for clarity: Was TV, as a homogenizing force that entertained and dumbed people down to what big-money publishers wanted them to believe, a better alternative?

aylmao 9y ago
Oh yeah, that makes more sense! I'm from Mexico. A good example to look at is Carmen Aristegui. She's an award winning journalist, most recently named one of the world's greatest leaders by Forbes, but she's been shunned from most traditional media outlets. After she reported on a corruption scandal involving the president she was fired from the broadcaster she worked for, and has since relied on web/social media to keep doing her job. Meanwhile Televisa (biggest TV network in Mexico) reports memes [1], random crazy people [2], and is known to be very politically biased [3]. No award-winning journalists on TV. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1XceNu-LE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1XceNu-LE (this girl's XV birthday became a big meme in Mexico) [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObV9XDBLRUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObV9XDBLRUk [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisa#Criticisms_and_controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisa#Criticisms_and_contro...