[1shooner]

Right, consider the thousands of hours of online technical training content on Udemy, etc. Much of that is very clear, well-paced, and precise. Conversely, watching any number of peppy newsreels on e.g. British Pathe[1]. They're just as blaring and superficial as any contemporary correlate.

[1]https://www.britishpathe.com/

[machinelabo]

It’s unfair to compare a college course to traditional TV media. College courses in the 80’s were similar to Coursera too.

I urge you to watch news channels from the 80s. Literally every TV media was degraded from Discovery channel to History channel.