re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Broadcast media is about superficialities and optics, about scandals and sensation. Depth and nuance requires reading, it requires checking multiple sources and cross-referencing various points of view…but that is not what they are selling.

It’s about a media that actually gives a damn about informing rather than entertaining. And that ceased being the case in the last 30 years when 24/7 news stations realized they needed something to keep people’s attention when there weren’t breaking news events or major events that people kept checking regularly for updates.