"Changes" to our media

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I am in two minds about our media and the changes we are seeing. Technology has made the playing field very different and the audience - us - have chosen a range of alternative options to access the media offerings. And the old form did have some evils - the way it created star performers, hugely overpaid, contributing to other social imbalances as it did so was no gift to any community. We see the extreme results of that now in the US, but it has been a slow process and not limited to them. Look at our own screens, we had media stars here earning vast salaries, stars now doing their damnedest to be podcast heroes, and demonstrating those same egoes for their followers to worship. In the process they boost division, create hate groups, magnify inequality, and drum up social unrest.

It is a powerful tool, our media. And we have let the even more powerful get control of it, just as we have let them hoover up other social necessities. How we fix it without a huge revolution I have no idea...

Maybe we can't.