There was a time, before the internet began slicing the audience into smaller and smaller pieces, when talent from different broadcast networks would never publicly acknowledge the existence of one another.
Now they do podcasts together.
Before the internet, when one network news division scooped another, it would be acknowledged with the generic phrase, “according to broadcast reports” or in the case of print, “according to published reports.”
The late night talk show host Spotify-cast has come together in the unique circumstance of the writers’ strike, but it is still a commentary on how the media landscape has changed.
