> The other problem is the audience is not just the local village, but basically everyone on the internet today and the future potentially. Everyone is watching

> The other problem is the audience is not just the local village, but basically everyone on the internet today and the future potentially. Everyone is watching, commenting, liking, up-voting and so on One can blame the Internet for many things, but in this case, it didn’t contribute anything new. Many famous people who had fallen out of favor with the general public decades or even centuries ago suffered and sometimes died in poverty. Perhaps bad news travels faster now, but it’s not less accurate than before the digital age and while it spreads more efficiently, it also has to fight more for attention with all the utterly pointless bits of information the media disseminate (e.g. last week: „Matt Damon lost his luggage and had to borrow a suit“ - in the headlines all over the world).