Media and the Rise of the Idiocracy

The Broken News Business
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/10/josh-hawley-broken-news-business/
George Will notes:
“… journalism also has a demand-side problem: Time was, journalists assumed that news consumers demanded “more information, faster and better.” Now, instantaneous communication via passive media — video and television — supplies what indolent consumers demand.
More than half of Americans between ages 16 and 74 read below the sixth-grade level. Video, however, requires only eyes on screens. But such passive media cannot communicate a civilization defined by ideas”.