We live in a sort of netherworld between traditional mainstream news media like newspapers and TV networks and the new media of the internet. You can’t rely on lone citizen journos wandering around a vast, distant war or locals posting on social media. If there’s any framing it’s a hodgepodge of tidbits from other social media: Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, Pierre Poilievre’s greatest Justin hits. Think of it as a timid precursor to social media and then the rest — Breitbart et al. Above all, there was the decline of the mainstream news media itself, relentlessly shedding ad revenues while hoping for a miracle.

Source: thestar June 09, 2023 13:01 UTC