That’s slightly different than other media because the “hegemonic” bit is really important and the town newspaper / networks monopolized it.
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It never mattered what the underlying artifact in the habit was. That was simply a historical accident.
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Antagonism between media and tech is not about distributing news. Distributing news is not and never was valuable. The habit is the prize.
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Steve Jobs created a much stickier, more engaging, easier-to-wrap-ads-around habit and popularized it worldwide.
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Every compliant since then has been “Dang it the geeks have encroached on our monopoly of being the only ad provider everyone has to use.”
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"Imagined Communities" claims newspapers produced the social basis for the nation state. Current claims about the divisiveness of social media seem to make the case that newspapers help unify & regulate discourse
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"Democracy dies in darkness" seems to me a gloss for "without elite traditional media institutions the basis of a cohesive nation state will splinter and devolve"
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