I mean they're not wrong. Television utterly wrecked society in the USA at least. Less because people are post-literate, more because people spent all of their time fucking watching it.
And uh... I think we can all agree Twitter is cancer. Influencers are... absolutely awful. Short form posts/videos give a blank check to low effort shitposters.
Podcasts can be cool though. I don't know how many people listen to those.
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@strypey Didn't they used to say that about television in the 80's?
@drwho
> Didn't they used to say that about television in the 80's?
Exactly.
I mean they're not wrong. Television utterly wrecked society in the USA at least. Less because people are post-literate, more because people spent all of their time fucking watching it.
And uh... I think we can all agree Twitter is cancer. Influencers are... absolutely awful. Short form posts/videos give a blank check to low effort shitposters.
Podcasts can be cool though. I don't know how many people listen to those.
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@cy
> Television utterly wrecked society in the USA at least
Far more so than even the worst of net-based media. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a great book about that.
> Podcasts can be cool though. I don't know how many people listen to those
Lots more than watch reels I suspect. But as with the fediverse, getting accurate stats is very hard.
Clearly Alex Yates has never heard of podcasts. Which young people also seem to enjoy in record numbers, and which often involve long form discussions about complex issues.
Often in intricate detail, surveying a diverse range of perspectives, to a degree that puts their TV counterparts to shame, and even contemporary newspapers. Most of which now consist mainly of lightly-rewritten press releases, and op eds that are no more insightful or accurate than the average blog.
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