Predicting month-by-month media trends for 2022
If any of these outrageous developments hit the airwaves, you can say you heard it here first.
What’s in the cards for the news media in 2022? Does fake news have a future? Will C-Span launch a sitcom? Will The New York Post bring out a Sunday insert offering a gourmet sandwich?
The answers, respectively, are yes, no and maybe.
Will free daily city newspapers deploy street hawkers to pay pedestrians a quarter for taking a copy if they promise to look only at the ads? Is the FCC going to give everyone on Twitter carte blanch to commit random acts of lousy punctuation? Will ABC Evening News hire Ryan Seacrest, only for him to rush to cover his first hurricane, misplace his hair gel and call out sick, citing a coiffure malfunction?
Here, the answers are, respectively, definitely, perhaps and who knows.
Now, meantime, I bring you my month-by-month predictions for the year:
January: The New Yorker magazine publishes a commemorative edition dedicated to the environment. Once read, it morphs into mulch.
February: Facebook, intent on monopolizing the metaverse—and thereby eliminate life lived in three-dimensions, much less real time—strikes a deal with God to aggregate content. The Devil is reportedly unamused.
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