The creepy tone of the background music sets the stage for this look back at the demise of traditional media as we know it from the perspective of 2014. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Friendster and the trend towards personalized and automated filters to help manage information flow pull down the Fourth Estate.
“The New York Times becomes a print-only newsletter for the elderly and elite.”
The ending leaves me cold. Watch the developments over at Pegasus News as they build an alternative to this algorithmic nightmare.
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