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by smeej 1128 days ago
Newspapers aren't nearly as effective at keeping attention indefinitely/at every opportunity, nor at controlling what you read next.
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Fox news seems to have done a pretty good job of this in the US
Presumably most viewers have chosen that echo chamber, so it really isn’t the same to compare it.

Also Fox News has only a few million viewers each night e.g. “Fox News Channel coasted to an easy win in prime time Monday night, delivering an average total audience of 2.351 million viewers”.

Fox News isn’t a newspaper