What if?

[Jolly]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/11/what_if_we_had_a_functional_mainstream_media_149732.html

[taiwan_girl]

What is mainstream media mean anyway? Maybe a better term would be "legacy"media. Their power is much smaller. Newspaper readers have decreased ALOT, total viewers of straight news programs have decreased ALOT.

Part of the problem (or maybe the whole problem) is the news has become much more vertical, so most people only end up reading things that trend towards their viewpoint.

[Renauda]

I still use the term “slick press” over mainstream media. It’s always been there, its purpose is not so much to inform with accuracy, but rather gain readership and earn advertising dollars.

Hence it’s clever and slick.