Ways in which information can become Public Information and paid attention to by a lot of people is much more fluid, there are many more gates than there used to be. I argue you dont need gates because the walls have come down. So where we get information from, what becomes newsworthy or important, what goes viral is very different from what used to be the case. In the period just prior to this era. The other point were trying to make is that we cant just compare what we have now to what preceded the 50 years of broadcast news. If you look more historically we have actually had four or five different media regimes, as we call them in which the relationship between the media, citizens and political elites, have been different, and so if we want to assess what is good or bad about the current environment, we need to look not just at what we have lost or gamed compared to broadcast news but what we lost or gamed compared to the era of realism in the 19th century or the Partisan Press, in
Tasha Oren on the past, present and future of film and media studies at Tufts
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