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“By abandoning comments, news organizations are not only giving up an important role in shaping public discourse—they’re giving up a key avenue toward having direct, sustainable relationships with their audiences.

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

The prestige recession

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Jeremy O. Harris, who’s a producer on HBO’s Euphoria, tweeted that the show was made for people “with an intellect for CINEMA not the impatience of TELEVISION.”

Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"

Zunger proposed adding a third tier for these debatable clips: keep them up but note internally that they were close to the line. If accounts came close too often, pull them from video recommendations.

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Facebook is so big that it is always going to be a thousand different things at the same time. There’s 500 places where it’s doing something really cool and interesting, and there’s 500 places where it’s doing something really scary and in need of intervention.

Alex Kantrowitz • Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton

"Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations. The irony here is that this is wha

The past hundred years a canon that defined modernity, post-modernity, and our world was established, celebrated, illuminated, and constantly revised by critics and appreciators who used the pen to make their case. They’re the ones who helped establish cultural significance. They’re the ones who remind us to marvel not at demographics, but at indiv... See more

The prestige recession

The earlier era of prestige TV was predicated on shows with meta-narratives to be puzzled out, and which merited deep analyses read the day after watching. Here, there is nothing to figure out; as prestige passes its peak, we’re moving into the ambient era, which succumbs to, rather than competes with, your phone.

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Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

The prestige recession

Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Alex Kantrowitz • Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton

The prestige recession

Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV