Good time of the day, humans!
Transcript:
Rat: — It’s fortunate we still have a TV.
Cousin: — But we could just as well watch news on the internet.
Rat: — There are lots of unverified information on the internet. On TV, you can be fairly certain everything is a lie.
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And the Internet is interactive so you can participate mutually in the ongoing creation of utter fictions while simultaneously fiercely defending them as real. Fun!
Imagine that, due to the constraints of 2030 SDGs, they throw away all bells and whistles in TV news shows, and they go back to the bare bones: a dude, sitting in a chair, with a paper in his hands and clock with hands and Roman numerals on the wall behind, only one camera in front of him. No transitions, no monitors behind, no green screens, no charts, not even a lousy blackboard with a hand drawn map on it. Just the spoken words, the flow of human voice, the non-verbal gestures.
The risk of such poverty of means is that the News would be more credible, and almost poetic. On the other hand, "the network" by Sidney Lumet was an entertaining movie.