CHALLENGES OF TROUBLESOME AUDIENCES

Media companies have historically been relatively unconcerned about and even disdainful of individuals in their audiences.Publishers produced newspaper in ways and at times that was convenient for themselves. Television channels offered programs on a take-it-when-offered basis—Too bad if you visited your mother and didn’t see it. Journalists and public service broadcasters conceived the public as an unkempt mass that need to be educated and led to think correctly and do the right things.Audiences...