This is actually pretty mad to think that the media was the same in 1863 as it is now. I agree that one newspaper a week is enough. I wish I had the time to read the paper but even on a strike day I doubt I’ll have the time. But anyway I don’t want to. Even in reading a localised paper, as no doubt HDT was, you might not recognise your own local area. Stories of crime and the political meanderings that make the national news hardly looks like what is outside our own windows. I’ve had enough of the media, from all sides and of all kinds.
Social media as a source of news is not a source of news. It is opinion and usually the opinion of one person, or I suppose, many if you go to the comments, which can sometimes be more informative, or hilarious. More and more we see accounts that are controlled and the same is true of the print media whose owners and positions dictate what goes in based on what sells. Or their opinion; which is the true nature of media. We tell you what to think based on the biggest dramatic story we can concoct, even if it’s not true. I’ve had too much. I need to get away from it more.