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The combination of financial challenges faced by news divisions, strategic interests in political influence, and the advent of AI in advertising sales paints a picture of a media industry at a crossroads. These developments threaten to diminish the quality, independence, and diversity of news available to the public, as profit motives and technological efficiencies reshape the landscape.
For viewers and consumers, these changes underscore the importance of critical media literacy, as the traditional watchdog functions of network news may diminish or be co-opted to serve corporate or political interests.