The Mainstream Media Strikes Back
Top Stories Tamfitronics The news about the news most days is grim. Every story about the industry seems to include the word “beleaguered,” and if a newsroom isn’t laying people off, it’s probably cutting or slashing in some other way. In March, Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei dropped this quasi-obituary while exploring the shifting power dynamics of our information landscape: “Traditional media, at least as a center of dominant power, is dead.”Allen and VandeHei wisely observed how Americans are self-sorting into a dozen different isolating media bubbles. But the thing is, bubbles can pop. Though the old mass media days may be long gone, even in this era of influencers and information silos, major networks and legacy newsrooms have the ability to break through. In the past several weeks of political upheaval, complete...
