I don’t know that it ever worked and maybe there’s a hump we can get over when individuals really can create their own media. It feels like we’re getting there with journalism, through real investigative or international journalism may always be prohibitively expensive (sharing an opinion or researching public data is easy. Else not so much)

But I’ve never really enjoyed the news. The news has never been what the newsroom said it was, at least not in my lifetime. It was always pretty shallow.

Hollywood is similar, it was certainly better?, but will we get to the point that a movie line rounders could be self-financed?

From the journalists that brought you agitprop on WMDs in Iraq (New York Times), a fabricated story on Russians hacking U.S. energy infrastructure to provoke war between superpowers (WaPo) or from NPR when they heavily implied a person who was violently attacked in his vehicle and then sped away to avoid the violence was a "right-wing extremist" involved in a "vehicle-ramming incident" (later deleted the evidence with no retraction or apology).

There is no such thing as an ethical mass media journalist, hence why they are historical low trust and are being lapped by citizen journalists, who receive orders of magnitude more views.

I now believe that was a mistake. It was doing more good than harm.

Anytime I put on a popular TV show, sports, movies, etc it’s glaringly obvious this is corporate slop to control your thoughts. The CGI has gotten really cool though.