This is myopic. Basic cable and top 40 radio is still a thing. It's not like you need to dip into the historical archives to do comparative analysis here. Turn

This is myopic. Basic cable and top 40 radio is still a thing. It's not like you need to dip into the historical archives to do comparative analysis here. Turn on FM radio, surf through the low number channels on tv ... the difference between that and what I consume on the net has a venn diagram of two distant far away circles. Not only, but the concentration of the top tier has diluted. Just look at the rating for the most watched shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts_in_the_United_States#Series_by_year_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_televisio... If you exclude sports, the ratings are half of what they were pre-broadband. There used to be a collective culture dictated by presumed media consumption up until maybe 15 years ago. That's also gone. The long tail has been so victorious, it's overtaken the dominant framing so it can no longer be seen as distinct. It'd be like saying "jet airplanes" were no longer a thing because we've dropped the term "jet" when in reality, they've become so dominant for commercial air-travel, the comparison for the normal passenger no longer exists.