I'd love to learn more about the disintermediation thesis. Especially: Did it even happen? Or was it just merely the defunding of news institutions? The best n

I'd love to learn more about the disintermediation thesis. Especially: Did it even happen? Or was it just merely the defunding of news institutions? The best notion I've come up with is reapplying Chomksy's five filters of mass media model to social media. My hunch is the Owners stole the Advertisers lunch money. But I'm no media critic (academic), so it's just a guess. It'd also be cool if someone "followed the money", as you suggest. It'd be pretty wild if the shareholders behind the Owners remained the same. Huh. Writing this out, it's now obvious that Flak stole almost all of Media Elite's power and money.