Mike Barnicle expressed his concerns over the future of mainstream media, highlighting a poll showing a notable shift in news consumption to social media influencers, with 20% of Americans relying on them for news. He noted, 'I don't know how we make ourselves relevant again because we can't compete with 20 second snippets on an iPhone, walking up the street and getting your entire news digest of the day in less than a minute on your phone as you're walking in a crowd with coffee in one hand and your phone in the other.'
Eugene Robinson took a more optimistic perspective during the discussion, remarking, 'The answer is, we don't know how to compete with the social media basket making influencers or whatever, but we have to. And we've got to figure out ways to do it and maybe we make our own 20 second snippets and we meet viewers where they are, we've got to meet news consumers where they are because they're not here, and that's the problem.'
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