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I think, at a minimum, a return to print or radio news is called for. They necessitate attentive consumption of information in a way that video just doesn't. I feel like they leave mental space open for critical thought. TikTok is the total opposite.

I don't know how bad TikTok is because shorts just don't grab hold of me hard enough to even look at the app, at most I see someone else sharing a short of something silly on a meme channel.

But… and I appreciate you did say "at a minimum"…

Radio is absolutely something you can have on in the background, vibrating your eardrums without engaging your attention.

Intentionality may be impossible in TikTok for all I know, but it isn't enough to just do radio, and I think also not print.

So if we try to walk up all the ladders of abstractions and get to the core where we cannot go yet another layer above, what we end up? Word of mouth basically?

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