“Even if the media doesn’t cover the violence AT ALL, they now understand tech has changed to the point where NEWS of it will STILL get out. NO WAY would they cover ANY of the violence just 20 years ago, when they still sorta had a monopoly.”
Oh, absolutely. Except one thing: the enemedia had an ABSOLUTE monopoly on information dissemination 20 years ago, not just sorta. There were three enemedia networks, and essentially all newspapers were enemedia, with the NYT pretty much dictating what ALL the other enemedia outlets were supposed to be showing as news each day.
But the NYT’s dominance is a thing of the past as much of the oldline media “news” is simply stuff they’ve trolled from the Internet. The oldline media no longer sets the trends as they once did, but are now reduced to simply repeating the trends found online.
Exactly.
For instance, in 1991 in order to get first hand trooper eyewitness reports on the Clinton's Arkansas scandals, I listened to Radio Free America, and For The People on WWCR shortwave radio. I had a tape recorder time set to record the programs to hear about the Clinton's prior to the 1992 election. There was nearly zero network coverage.
Now, information is just a click away. However, you have to want to know the truth, and most don't.