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For around 20 years but especially for the last 10 years, and
intensifying all the time, sales of “traditional print media” have
declined in the western countries. The pat explanation is an Internet
which churns with carbon copy models of “traditional media”, both
newspaper clones, and magazine clones, but this is at best a half of the
explanation for the probably certain disappearance of the “great
newspapers”.
This other half of the explanation concerns
dumbing-down, lying, trivialization and idiotized fantasy and
entertainment-oriented coverage replacing the former copy – and even the
propaganda – that buyers of print media got. Much the same happened to
broadcast media through the same time period, eating into audience and
viewer scores and shredding the credibility of former “reference
programmes’ like the Eight o’Clock News shows broadcast both on private
and state TV stations. Television is well on its way (if it’s not
already there) to becoming another Lost Media, just like the print media.
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