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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Replying to @thegrugq
By human culture, you mean a portion of human culture, mostly Anglo American?
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Replying to @emptywheel
More the industrialized world. The USSR, China, Europe, and Japan had centralized news dissemination. So a slightly broader swath than Anglo American.
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Replying to @thegrugq
I'm quite curious by what you consider "centralized news dissemination."
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Replying to @emptywheel
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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Replying to @thegrugq
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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Replying to @emptywheel
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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