There’s something more insidious about these new talking heads tho.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week agoWe didn’t have the youtubers or Instagram thots; but we sure had influencers in the form of “talking heads” on television.
SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 week ago
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Even before that there was Walter Cronkite, then Peter Jennings.
That was back in an era where everyone watched the same “influencers”. The good part of that was that for the most part, these influencers were rigorously fact checked so the people who watched them agreed on the same set of facts, and those facts were more or less true.
On the other hand, there were times when these “influencers” were biased or even hid the truth. The bias was often something they even had trouble noticing. Like, they all believed communism was a big threat, or that police were trustworthy. As for hiding the truth, sometimes when a politician got in trouble the news would drop the story because of their deference to power. They’d also sometimes try to repeat whatever the government said as truth without checking it, or not investigate bad things the government was doing overseas because they saw that as being patriotic.
Overall, I think it was better when everybody agreed on most things, even if sometimes the news / “influencers” were biased. At least it meant that the government was more or less functional. At least it meant that people were relatively civil with each-other.
Geodad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Where is he burried? I need to visit that latrine.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Geodad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Have you used that public latrine?
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Of course, I have a review of my experience!