Date: 2024-12-21 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00021634
MEDIA
THE CHANGING WORLD OF MEDIA
If the press ... that is media ... does not do its job, then society as we know it is at peril!
THE CHANGING WORLD OF MEDIA
If the press ... that is media ... does not do its job, then society as we know it is at peril!
Burgess COMMENTARY
This graphic goes back about 10 years ... probably to around 2011. There has been ongoing consolidation and worse, the rise of other forms of media amd means of mass communication.
If the press ... that is media ... does not do its job, then society as we know it is at peril!
It has been said that 'Knowledge is Power' and media is an important purveyor of knowledge. When it is highjacked to deliver misinformation, society is in trouble. So called 'social-media' has become a cancer in society and made a mockery of 'an informed public'. It has been gamed using AI to generate massive economic profit while doing enormous social bad. Up to now (February 2022) it has had enough money to protect its profit performance from well-meaning political and regulatory oversight.
Peter Burgess
