"Take a look around the industry, which new hosts or executives have become household names as a result of a known commodity drawing attention to them?"
Whether the topic was the NBA, the Dallas Cowboys, the roast of Tom Brady, officiating, gout or heat packs versus ice baths, the hosts move through the topics at a good pace.
Social media has shaken the information landscape, but are social media and other new technology platforms to blame for the decline of trust in newspapers, TV, and radio?
All of this could be moot by the end of the decade, of course. But for now, there are glimmers of hope, tiny, minuscule, almost imperceptible glimmers.
The political junkies may have an interest in Byron Donald, Doug Burgum, or ASPCA Poster Girl of the Year Kristi Noem. The actual real people have zero interest.