I recently read Contact(the book by Carl Sagan, still need to watch the movie), which features a tech billionaire who built his wealth doing exactly that. He developed a chip that could block TV commercials, and later one to filter televangelists as well.

For a book that was published in the 80s and set in the late 90s, it’s prescient in a few very specific ways. We weren’t exactly communicating by Portable Telefax in 1999, but adblockers were not far away either.

You used the term ‘millennial journalism’ in reference to shitty headlines. That pretty directly implies that millenials are responsible for shitty headlines.

That said: whoa nelly, my comment was a joke, not an argument. A pretty flaccid joke too, to warrant this kind of defense. I’m not your enemy, alright?

You know we’re right here, right?

‘Millenials are ruining headlines’ is a level of meta I’ve yet to see from that trope.

Somebody dress up like a wizard and go ponder this thing.