Entertainment content and popular media are not trivial. They are the modern folk tale. They teach us how to fall in love, how to dress, how to argue with our parents, and what we fear about the future.
The blurry line between news and entertainment content has become a societal crisis. Cable news networks long ago adopted entertainment formats (dramatic music, flashy graphics, adversarial debate). However, the internet supercharged this. Now, conspiracy theories are packaged as "deep dives." Political propaganda is disguised as "commentary." xxx+mom+mms+updated