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Is the Media Holding Us Back?
That one-dimensional news cycle is going nowhere fast
Now that we’ve all grown accustomed to living inside the one-dimensional news cycle, it’s increasingly easier to get trapped inside the border wall of the zeitgeist. Losing sight of the horizon, will the news of the day cost us our future?
It wasn’t all that long ago when you could turn to the news for stories on topics such as health and science, and actually get news on health and science topics. Today, it’s a full-court press of all politics, all the time. As we have now officially entered election season (if we can even still refer to it as a season), we find ourselves surrounded by more of the same. Convention politics. Pandemic politics. Post Office politics. Storm response politics.
In an interesting interpretation of how to diversify their portfolios and cater to the interests of the news consumer, media outlets are wildly working to churn out a plethora of new newsletters and podcasts devoted to filling smaller and narrower information niches. Net result of the news media’s fixation on exploiting the vertical? We now know much more about far less. But hey, we get all this nothing conveniently delivered to our personal digital space with simply one click, so that’s something.
