@hightor,
(What's your instrument?")
Quote:But I think seventy-five years of Hollywood and Madison Avenue being shot into people's vision screens and the geometric increase with digital communication has prepared us for this moment, the pathways to the political brain are now shared with those of the entertainment brain. I'd give you some examples but I gotta go — band practice.
Gotcha. And you'll get no argument from me on that.
Still, I deem it both worthwhile and necessary for us study media and direct it, so much as we can, to avoid the worst consequences of this new human information universe. Regulations/limitations on media ownership/penetration are at the top of that list. But even outside of that, I've seen the major media shift behaviors during this Trump period and I've seen many of them attend the criticisms of Jay Rosen, Margaret Sullivan and others.
Eyeballs are glued to screens now as any visit to a doctor's waiting room or any visit to a high school will make manifest. We're stuck with this new reality. And we are stuck with the reality of the situation where Les Moonves can dryly state that Trump may be "bad for America but he's damn good for CBC". Still, I'm somewhat optimistic (at least until the oceans rise 3 more feet).