However "given a chance people talk back" making Old Media increasingly shrill and angry about losing its traditional gatekeeping role. New York Times editor Kate Phillips awkwardly discloses, "I almost wish we could go back to the days when we never heard their voices."
Given the chance a rather small percentage of the people talk back. Look how few people actually bother to vote on a regular basis, that’s the ultimate opportunity to talk back and the majority stay silent.
And there’s a major difference between the problems the newspapers are having and the problems the TV stations are having. Newspapers have been in trouble for a long time, the first difficulty they had was competing with TV. And it’s not really even the “news” aspect of the internet that’s hurting newspapers, it’s the non-news informational aspect. Back in the 80s and 90s the only time I ever got a newspaper was to find movie times or other local entertainment events, now I get all that information from the internet. Then with the 24 hours news cycle that’s on the internet even the “news” aspect of newspapers winds up in trouble, by the time the afternoon paper comes out most people have already read up on the events of the day, and reading the morning news online looks more productive at work than reading the newspaper.
But back to the TV front, the whole excerpt is wrong. Starting with the couch potatoes and going through the blatant misunderstanding of where all these cable channels come from.