In this fast-moving world before asking What's the big news we need to look around and find Where is the big news, apart from the platforms like Morning brew as you already mentioned. This online media which pops up every day in our email never allows us to ignore, and if we ignore it once it again knock the inbox and reminds that you are lagging behind and by the time we realise that another post pops up. Not only this, if we look at one of the finest news anchor Palki Sharma Upadhyay of Wion news, she hosts the show named Gravitas which again gives listeners the Big news they actually want to listen without any sugar-coated stuff and again the platform like youtube plays a big role in this.
You rightly mentioned in the article that why to invest time when you can actually find good content online. A full-fledged McKinsey report that is a convenient source for everything is just a button away, all we need to do is SUBSCRIBE.
Definitely, the online media platforms have somewhat reduced the charm of reading newspapers but at the same time, it is sustainable in a sense !!
It’s been 9 years that I had already given-up on printed media, because of lack of convenience; but that doesn’t mean that I’m through with the printed media, if given a chance like at Airport or at libraries, wherever I can get newspapers I grab them, apart from news they also help us in many purposes.
Platform and News Agencies are in the process for Perfect Match-Making, so that both of them can be benefitted with each other. Being a Platform their focus is on creating Moats - either by Network Effects or by Commoditisation. On the other-hand, News Agencies also have their own fan-base, for example if your are UPSC aspirant, then you will prefer The Hindu over to Economic Times or others..... and getting those kind of New Houses to your platform will also increase the Thickness of Platform as well.
I am a regular user of Podcast, Apple News and Google News and other some small apps, but one thing that I noticed is that Apple is very good at Creating Standardisation at market and then Commoditising it; followed by Monetisation, as they have such a reputation in market that they need not to work upon to Ensure Security over their platform and they are good at mitigating asymmetric information.
However for Facebook, it’s not long back that their own employee alleges company for “profit off hate” and quits the job, in Australia as you have correctly pointed out, even today in India their top officials have been called by Delhi Panel Over Hate Speech Complaints.
And why only Facebook and Google to be blamed for, long before the Friendly and Desperate acquisition of WhatsApp, many of us were Prof. Scott Galloway of fake news on WhatsApp University....... and after the situation of COVID-19 we are even beyond...... by actively reading all those fake forwards.
But as far as duology, is concerned they have to seriously work upon their Platform by properly engulfing in Ethics and Regulations, to which for a platform; is not easy.
Apps are fine and I use Twitter to follow news. But I am old-fashioned and still prefer the newspaper. Apps, sometimes are flooded with trending topic rather than news. While a traditional newspaper still talks about news in the remote places of the state/country and yesterday it was wonderful to see a full-page on Pt. Ravi Shankar's birth centenary column.
BTW Prof. Galloway's depiction of The Four makes you feel that Facebook's red-flagging fake news is a superficial attempt. The Four and now The Five, seem to have bigger plans on how to control data and therefore everything we do!
I have recently started the print media subscribtion back again after year of attempt to get accustomed to e-media news. More than news I believe in analysis of the topic than just a peice of information.
Print media help me choose my content which I want to read and I am the director of my imagination while I am reading. I am not been fed with feed/content using AI or recommendations or throwing fake facts.
There has been a deluge of content and constant struggle to catch up ! I had decided to go back to known sources for their news recommendation. Of course, going back to books has certainly helped.
Twitter and LinkedIn are good for getting curated news content. But platform tend to shift towards a mass base and hence have to incorporate entertainment content too.
Very well said, sir!!
In this fast-moving world before asking What's the big news we need to look around and find Where is the big news, apart from the platforms like Morning brew as you already mentioned. This online media which pops up every day in our email never allows us to ignore, and if we ignore it once it again knock the inbox and reminds that you are lagging behind and by the time we realise that another post pops up. Not only this, if we look at one of the finest news anchor Palki Sharma Upadhyay of Wion news, she hosts the show named Gravitas which again gives listeners the Big news they actually want to listen without any sugar-coated stuff and again the platform like youtube plays a big role in this.
You rightly mentioned in the article that why to invest time when you can actually find good content online. A full-fledged McKinsey report that is a convenient source for everything is just a button away, all we need to do is SUBSCRIBE.
Definitely, the online media platforms have somewhat reduced the charm of reading newspapers but at the same time, it is sustainable in a sense !!
It’s been 9 years that I had already given-up on printed media, because of lack of convenience; but that doesn’t mean that I’m through with the printed media, if given a chance like at Airport or at libraries, wherever I can get newspapers I grab them, apart from news they also help us in many purposes.
Platform and News Agencies are in the process for Perfect Match-Making, so that both of them can be benefitted with each other. Being a Platform their focus is on creating Moats - either by Network Effects or by Commoditisation. On the other-hand, News Agencies also have their own fan-base, for example if your are UPSC aspirant, then you will prefer The Hindu over to Economic Times or others..... and getting those kind of New Houses to your platform will also increase the Thickness of Platform as well.
I am a regular user of Podcast, Apple News and Google News and other some small apps, but one thing that I noticed is that Apple is very good at Creating Standardisation at market and then Commoditising it; followed by Monetisation, as they have such a reputation in market that they need not to work upon to Ensure Security over their platform and they are good at mitigating asymmetric information.
However for Facebook, it’s not long back that their own employee alleges company for “profit off hate” and quits the job, in Australia as you have correctly pointed out, even today in India their top officials have been called by Delhi Panel Over Hate Speech Complaints.
And why only Facebook and Google to be blamed for, long before the Friendly and Desperate acquisition of WhatsApp, many of us were Prof. Scott Galloway of fake news on WhatsApp University....... and after the situation of COVID-19 we are even beyond...... by actively reading all those fake forwards.
But as far as duology, is concerned they have to seriously work upon their Platform by properly engulfing in Ethics and Regulations, to which for a platform; is not easy.
Apps are fine and I use Twitter to follow news. But I am old-fashioned and still prefer the newspaper. Apps, sometimes are flooded with trending topic rather than news. While a traditional newspaper still talks about news in the remote places of the state/country and yesterday it was wonderful to see a full-page on Pt. Ravi Shankar's birth centenary column.
BTW Prof. Galloway's depiction of The Four makes you feel that Facebook's red-flagging fake news is a superficial attempt. The Four and now The Five, seem to have bigger plans on how to control data and therefore everything we do!
I have recently started the print media subscribtion back again after year of attempt to get accustomed to e-media news. More than news I believe in analysis of the topic than just a peice of information.
Print media help me choose my content which I want to read and I am the director of my imagination while I am reading. I am not been fed with feed/content using AI or recommendations or throwing fake facts.
There has been a deluge of content and constant struggle to catch up ! I had decided to go back to known sources for their news recommendation. Of course, going back to books has certainly helped.
Twitter and LinkedIn are good for getting curated news content. But platform tend to shift towards a mass base and hence have to incorporate entertainment content too.