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Comment by collsni | Hacker News Reader

The end of the news world as we know it.

Will be very difficult to detect in the future and will result in trust issues / rampant fake news.

Kind of like right now with 90% of all mainstream media being owned by just 6 corporations. Their employees must abide by the rules they set and are told what they can and cannot talk about.

I'd venture to say, this will only increase people's skepticism, which is a good thing. We need people to start thinking for themselves instead of turning off their brain and just being fed info they assume they can trust.

https://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control...

I hope that's true, but I suspect the allure of getting your own personalized news feed on only the topics you care about, in the exact style you prefer will cause 90% of the listeners to choose this medium over all others and presume as much (or more) truth in this than the source they prefer today.

Never discount the influence of high production value on any form of media. Look at the utter crap music and films that have dominated mass media for decades. The best produced and most palatable fare nearly always sells best, no matter what the quality of the underlying content.

End of the road for podcasts more like. They are incredibly labour intensive to produce (recording + editing time), and more and more of them are becoming not much more than plugs for their book, TV show or what not. I can see them turning the medium into an automated marketing channel, the way email lists are today.

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