The town crier is long gone. Every journalist is hardwired to seek out the largest possible audiences. Why would a reporter want to go out and tell their story to a bunch of actual people in a room when they could put it online for the whole world? And yet that’s what’s happening.
pocket source: https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/putting-news-on-stage-bringing-journalism-back-to-the-theater-as-a-public-space/