Author: Bijan Stephen
There was an Olympics this year. Black Panther, too. If that surprises you to remember — as it surprises me — that’s because so much else has happened since. (“Everything happens so much,” wrote the Twitter account @horse_ebooks in the summer of 2012, which is as good a motto for these days as any.) Things are speeding up, or at least they seem to be.
That speed has increased, too, in recent years — and that’s no coincidence, given how much the global media landscape has changed over the same period. As a product, the news has never had a faster delivery mechanism: as soon as any significant event happens, anywhere in the world, reports (often unverified) are nearly instantly sent around the planet. Footage too, because the rise of the...
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There was an Olympics this year. Black Panther, too. If that surprises you to remember — as it surprises me — that’s because so much else has happened since. (“Everything happens so much,” wrote the Twitter account @horse_ebooks in the summer of 2012, which is as good a motto for these days as any.) Things are speeding up, or at least they seem to be.
That speed has increased, too, in recent years — and that’s no coincidence, given how much the global media landscape has changed over the same period. As a product, the news has never had a faster delivery mechanism: as soon as any significant event happens, anywhere in the world, reports (often unverified) are nearly instantly sent around the planet. Footage too, because the rise of the...
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