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mbg721 on Nov 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I resigned from Twitter

The mainstream media are trying to recapture the attention-monopoly they had in the 60s-70s, and are largely succeeding. They don't want to compete with Twitter; they want to buy it.

samtheprogram on Nov 29, 2021 [–]

Any particular reason you excluded the 80s (or even the 90s) from the attention-monopoly time period?

mbg721 on Nov 29, 2021 | [–]

Only that I think the 80s were a little past the sweet-spot of network television; cable was starting to become widespread.

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