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It's not so much good vs bad as long-tail vs median. A lot of content that wouldn't have flown in the mainstream during the traditional radio era because it di
by shadowgovt 4y ago
It's not so much good vs bad as long-tail vs median.
A lot of content that wouldn't have flown in the mainstream during the traditional radio era because it didn't capture the median demographic that the players were competing for can fly online because it captures the long tail and satisfies enough the interests or desires of a single content creator or small team to justify their efforts (where a studio organization can't survive without the kind of advertising revenue you get by being median popular).
A combination of lower costs and wider reach (allowing you to find more of the long tail) changes the mathematics on what is worth someone's time to publish.
And that's without getting off in the US-specific weeds regarding the fact that there was content that categorically could not be on the radio because the otherwise
-assumed First Amendment right to freedom of speech / the press was curtailed in the United States by the FCC acting as arbiter on parceling up a finite national resource (whereas the internet is not considered such a resource and therefore there's no central US governing authority telling you what you can and cannot put online in the same way).