Does anyone know if the UK is experiencing the death of oldmedia like the US is?
Don't Know.
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I wouldn’t say “death” of the old media, just a lot more choices leading to lower ratings for the older media.
Cable/sat arrived in Britain in a big way in the 90s, according to a Brit poster here, and that opened up the field. With more diverse news sources, the Beeb’s reportorial slant became much easier to detect and document over time. I really got hot under the collar with some of their coverage of the ME, back when I was under the illusion the Beeb was a vaunted news source and I checked them regularly.
Murdoch has his Sky News, which had a lot of live feed during the recent islamo-incinerations in London and Glasgow.
Apparently BBC has a royal charter so it is not going to disappear. Dang.