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Re:I resigned from Twitter by mbg721 on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:41AM (#29381913)
The mainstream media are trying to recapture the attention-monopoly they had in the 60s-70s, and are largely succeeding. They don't want to compete with Twitter; they want to buy it.
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Re:I resigned from Twitter by samtheprogram on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:31PM (#29382557)
Any particular reason you excluded the 80s (or even the 90s) from the attention-monopoly time period?
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Re:I resigned from Twitter by mbg721 on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:06PM (#29383003)
Only that I think the 80s were a little past the sweet-spot of network television; cable was starting to become widespread.
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