In case it isn’t obvious, this is the gradual Fox-ization of all media. The phrase “mainstream media” (MSM) has gone from a lame Fox projection to self-fulfilling industry-wide prophecy We are in a KYT shifting media landscape with “representative editorial democracy” governance
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This is by the way the reason (subconscious) I’ve never tried to build and attach a true discussion forum to ribbonfarm. It would be a hybrid mess. You can choose to project an auteur reality distortion field, or you can serve as a tribal mirror. Not both.
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If you try to do both, you introduce centripetal forces that pull the property apart. This may not be a bad thing. It is what happened to Less Wrong in a positive way. That started as an auteur blog, morphed into a tribal mirror, then exploded into a little universe of properties
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The only thing that can keep a property together despite such growing centripetal forces? Money? If ad revenues continue collapsing as they are for many properties (not all), property either dies or explodes into the smaller survivable bits.
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The big takeaway from this whole evolutionary trajectory is that the civic function traditionally served by the media, ground-truthing and as a check-and-balance to government, has permanently shifted to the open aggregator/distributor channels.
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The media can no longer serve both functions it once did: create cultural reality bubbles (“and that’s the way it is”) AND ground-truth politics. The industry has chosen to specialize in former function and leave latter to basically open-source efforts on distribution channels.
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