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How Our Primary Source of News & Information Changed in the last 200+ Years
- solutionyogi 17y agoWhy not link to the original article directly?
- potatolicious 17y agoInteresting link, but I'd be wary of anyone trying to predict large-scale social trends for the next decade - podcasts may (and IMHO is likely) not exist by the year 2020. The danger with these historical trending sort of articles is that recent history generally has a finer grain of detail, whereas things further back are just lumped into generic categories like "newspapers and magazines". This results in a skewed perspective that fails to appreciate the nuances of media at the time, and also injects a sort of self-importance ("look at how quickly things are evolving!") to our view of the world today.
- GavinB 17y agoThe graphs are beautiful, but where is the information coming from? As far as I can tell it's just guesswork. One major oversight is that even today we still get a large portion of news from the "local marketplace." It's just that now it's people chatting in workplaces and schools.