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Are you interested in a deeper look at a , like the rise of vertical video or the economics of live concerts? Media and Entertainment

For the better part of the 20th century, popular media was a monolith. In the 1970s and 80s, if you turned on the television on Sunday night, 40% of the country was watching the same program. We had "watercooler moments"—shared cultural touchstones like the M A S H* finale, the moon landing, or the Thriller music video premiere. MomXXX.22.07.05.Crystal.Swift.And.Sereyna.Gomez...

The result is a cultural amnesia. We watch a brilliant miniseries, talk about it for 72 hours, and then bury it under the next algorithmic recommendation. Popular media has become ephemeral, even as it becomes omnipresent. Are you interested in a deeper look at

However, this has also birthed the "culture war" as entertainment. The discourse about the content has become the content. The outrage over a casting decision generates more engagement than the show itself. The 45-minute YouTube rant about "wokeness in Star Wars" is a lucrative genre of popular media. In this landscape, hate-watching is still watching; the algorithm does not care why you click, only that you click. Popular media has become ephemeral, even as it

: Any activity, media, or event designed to hold the attention and interest of an audience, providing pleasure, delight, or emotional resonance. As Wikipedia's entry on entertainment notes, it encompasses everything from individual ideas to massive structured events developed over millennia to engage the public.

Regardless of your politics, one truth holds: It is a mirror. And depending on who is looking, that mirror is either a beautiful portrait of inclusion or a funhouse of distortion.