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Christine explains perfectly and succinctly why social media is pushing legacy media to its grave.

UK: Social media overtakes legacy media in popularity as news source

Sep 11, 2024 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In the UK, legacy media has proven to be little more than corrupt state-run media. For example, it took the platform X to uncover the fact that violent Muslim gangs were very much part of the UK protests, and also that the UK government was abusing citizens whom the Labour Party deemed a threat, whether or not they were any threat at all.

Citizens were being labeled “racist” and “far right,” while their real concerns about illegal migration as a factor in crime, national security and the economy were being ignored. 

Their rights were also being trampled. The legacy media only reported what the government wanted, demonstrating just how untrustworthy they have become. Thanks to Elon Musk and other defenders of freedom, social media can stand in the way of corrupt governments colluding with equally corrupt media.

The online popularity trend will likely continue, not just in the UK but elsewhere, and we can hope that the trend will have the effect of steering legacy media journalists back from being activists to acting as real journalists with an interest in reporting truth.

Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says

by Ingrid Lunden, Tech Crunch, September 9, 2024:

The newspaper business has been in the middle of a long and slow decline thanks to the rise of the internet. Now some new research out of the U.K. lays bare how TV news is facing a similar fate.

Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, at 71% versus 70%, according to new research from U.K. communications regulator Ofcom.

This is a significant shift. Not only has TV dominated news for more than 60 years (a period when it overtook newspapers in popularity for news; that was the first blow for broadsheets), but also as online platforms replace broadcasters (and newspapers), the news they carry comes from a much wider set of sources. That’s both a blessing for having more viewpoints and a curse for being significantly harder to vet for accuracy — and consumers are concerned that this will only get worse with the growth of AI.….

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