[Eric in the Ozarks]

That headline is worth another week of media chatter...

[semantic]

People gots to make a livin'. The media model desperately needs to come up with a new shtick. If we trace modern mass comm back to the 20s, around every generation there's a major tech change and/or shake-out.

Whether it's talkies, TV, the end of the studio system, the 'Net killing print, etc, as peak saturation occurs from over-exposure to 24/7 manufactured crises, how are (social) media companies gonna make a $ buck?

Perhaps the next tech wave is rapidly advancing in both medical sciences and computing. Maybe AI and VR will offer the "next big thing" as everyone becomes entirely bored to death by the endless, breathless, invented 'breaking' news.