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A better comparison would have been TV and film. A lot of "ecological niches" in the media landscape that are currently being taken over from TV by internet str

• mistersquid 8y ago
  > Can you imagine going to the cinema for a news broadcast? In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, cinema did in fact deliver news. > Regular newsreels were exhibited from 1910 and soon became a popular way for finding out the news. [0] Newsprint and newsreels existed side-by-side and while newspapers did go into greater depth, newsreels at the cinema were widespread. I don't have exact dates at hand, but newsreels at the cinema stopped with the advent of broadcast television, an example of one media largely displacing another. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film
  • vanderZwan 8y ago
    > In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, cinema did in fact deliver news. That was my point...