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One word. Netflixification. When there were only 3 news networks, they had to create a middle of the road, news only approach in order to broadly appeal to eve
by jjeaff 5y ago
One word. Netflixification.
When there were only 3 news networks, they had to create a middle of the road, news only approach in order to broadly appeal to everyone and since they only have the one outlet, they devoted a lot of resources to produce quality content with good fact checking and reporting.
Cable tv and then the internet opened up the flood gates for content. Now, instead of a few quality, middle of the road choices, we have every possible extreme niche option out there and the extremes have tended to rise to the top.
- senectus1 5y agooh bull, this split was around before netflix. It's never healed since the civil war. Just the colours of the flags changed.
- kcplate 5y agoNo offense but anyone who spells “colors” as “colours” probably doesn’t have a real “boots on the ground” perspective of America’s divides and wounds.