Social media. The pinicle of comunication and informative technology of the 21st century. Its crazy that a person thousands of miles away could learn pertty much anything that’s going on at a totally different location with minimal affort and with minimal delay. It would seem like dark magic to a pesant from the seventeen hundereds. However people often forget what we had before this huge network all over the world?
If anyone were to make a quick run down to the 50`s with a time machine they would quickly realise that woman had no word in the general public, America loved comiting war crimes upon the poor people of a certain middle eastern country and people acually read newspapers to their fullest value or listened to the radio to be informed. Sure they had junky CRT monitor TV`s but they were still relatively new and oversees communication was a no-go. Oh nevermind the extremely bad qualitiy. Regardless of how effective “media” was back then it`s still a huge step-up from the 1800`s where you would go not knowing that your mother died for 6 months at a time because she used to live two states north.
Nowadays though this type of physical information is uncommon. Sure every dad over 60 years of age still reads a paper or two while in the restroom and no books don’t count, cry about it. But other than the occasional tune into the radio, people strait up don’t care anymore. We have come such a long way in telecomunication in that every part of trashtalking strangers continents away on Twitter or Reddit feels casual. Or getting cancel all over the world because of a slightly rasist joke you made on the internet that you don`t even remember back in 2010 because you were a literal kid. Or offending a crossdresser and getting sued because you did not call the guy his made up pronouns that are over hundered letters each apperently being a hate crime.
I think that sums how inconsistent current media is well enough yet how so influential it is at the same time. While, traditional media wasn’t much more than that but it is safe to say that it is not as full of all types of “people” people if you catch my drift. Anyhow both are still incredibly powerfull in their own rights if used correctly but we all know that’s not happening, thanks to incredibly corrupt goverments in charge of it, well for the most part anyway…