(AXIOS) — You can’t understand November’s election — or America itself — without reckoning with how our media attention has shattered into a bunch of misshapen pieces.
Think of it as the shards of glass phenomenon. Not long ago, we all saw news and information through a few common windows — TV, newspapers, cable. Now we find it in scattered chunks that match our age, habits, politics and passions.
Why it matters: Traditional media, at least as a center of dominant power, is dead. Social media, as its replacement for news in the internet era, is declining in dominance.
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