Bring back 4 TV channels

When I was growing up we had 4 channels on TV and maybe 6 newspapers to choose from at the corner shop. I want to use this soapbox as a rant in favour of bringing that back. Look at some of the biggest problems in the world: climate change, the rise of the far right, ideological wars etc. etc. They would be solved far more easily if we could agree on objective truth. Instead every algorithmic feed regurgitates our own personal truth back at us until we’re all convinced that we’re special, different, and 100% correct. We’re all divided and seeing less and less that unites us. Everyone’s point of view is that their narrow window on the world is correct and everyone else is completely bonkers. Bring back 4 channels which everyone shares. Maybe you’re more of a channel 3 fan but you can still have a conversation with a channel 2er as you watch it occasionally. There’s common ground. If you’re deep down an algorithmic rabbit hole on a hot button topic you’re so far from your neighbour in their own rabbit hole that there’s zero common ground to even begin a civil debate. Rise up Soapboxers and delete your algorithmic feeds, read a newspaper you disagree with, and chat with someone you’d normally avoid. Most people are fundamentally the same as you are.

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