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power laws everywhere. i think people imagine that the distribution of content is new? did you think the evening news was good in 1973? popular implies lcd tras
by nh23423fefe 4y ago
power laws everywhere. i think people imagine that the distribution of content is new? did you think the evening news was good in 1973? popular implies lcd trash
- JohnFen 4y agoTV news in 1973 (in the US) was certainly imperfect, but very much better than news now. Mostly because it wasn't concerned with making money. In those days, a certain percentage of airtime had to be "public service" as a condition of the broadcasting license. (Are you old enough to remember "Public Service Announcements"? That's why they existed.) News counted towards that requirement. The decline of the quality of TV news started when CNN demonstrated that news can be a moneymaker. Then the public service requirements were lifted. So news is now a profit-seeking venture and, as often happens when profit becomes the main goal, declined in quality in exchange for more sensationalism to draw in viewers.