What I’m finding interesting is that from 1940-2010 (roughly) was this brief blip in human culture were communities got their news from a centralized source. Before it was mostly word of mouth, now it is the Internet. This makes many old techniques relevant again.
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A few small networks with wide audience. I have to write it up. ABC nightly news, and the NYT are different from Facebook as “news” source.
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Yes. And they both exist in a country that, before Fox, didn't have a partisan news, like many (arguably most) other countries.
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Yes. I think cable was the start of the fracturing intonsmaller communities. The UK has partisan press, but France (for example) still relies on TV news for info. It is one of their defense mechanisms, but unintentional.
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When you said centralized I wondered whether you meant in the metropole, as France is more than other countries. Still, there's space for disinfo in most these models. US 1945-1995 was an outlier for centralization.
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May I please interject here that in fact the news have been ‘centralised’ since 1880s when news agencies split the world among themselves and created a long enduring cartel. Three / four agencies items on national and world news were picked by local papers.
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My daughter’s book covering news agencies in Germany 1900-1945 comes out next year and I am basing my observation on following her research over the years. Link with technology is very important. First cable then telegraph, radio and now internet. Each brought adjustments
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As someone w/academic expertise on this herself (in 3 countries), and who worked w/academics who specialize in 3 others, I think it matters how one defines centralized.
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I agree. And that definition would have been interpreted in different ways over time. Also centralised operations could be purely technology mediated: correspondent to Center and Center to subscribers but without content parsing
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In fact, the BBC World Service ( still running, sort of )
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The BBC
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@thegrugq off on history? mass media (radio, newsreels & national weekly print pubs) came to dominate in 20’s
In fact I’d say donny is pale imitation of those ‘30’s dictators who used mass media (& failed Depression econ policies) to take power
@Twitter = history as farcepic.twitter.com/Ru6G0XtH9L
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