next, amol rajan takes a close look at a year dominated by covid—19 — and how it accelerated underlyingnds and created new ones, in the media year. hello. what a year it's been. i hope you and your family are doing 0k. welcome to our look back at the media year in 2020. and if there's one word i don't think we've heard enough of this year, it's unprecedented. when it comes to the media, the pandemic has had a cataclysmic effect. local and national media, especially those funded by advertising, have had one long nightmare. newspapers have faced yet more misery and decline. publishing groups, broadcasters, and advertisers have made big cuts. yet demand for quality news and entertainment has soared. back in the spring, broadcasters in particularfaced a huge new set of challenges — how to deliver and produce news safely. britain's coronavirus crisis... coronavirus. .. in a crisis... coronavirus. .. it's horrible. the pandemic... especially one in the information age... hand sanitiser. .. trusted news becomes a precious commodity. social distancing. for which there is high demand. coronaviru

next, amol rajan takes a close look at a year dominated by covid—19 — and how it accelerated underlying

about the online world, and whether it's essentially a publisher or a platform. 0ur media editor amol rajanm of public information and communication, is broken. fixing it, and making sure the same thing doesn't happen here, depends on understanding where power lies today. fearing regulation that will spook their investors, the data kings of california have for years resisted the idea that they are publishers. that era is over. a grand de—platforming of donald trump and many of his supporters is under way. twitter‘s boss jack dorsey has deleted president trump's account. facebook has suspended him. and now amazon's web services, and apple, with its app store, and also google have said they will no longer host parler, a free—speech network where extremism has flourished. these were human decisions, not algorithmic, and there are arguments against them. first, double standards. if trump is banned, why isn't iran's supreme leader, who has used twitter to incite violence against israel, and promoted conspiracies about vaccines as recently as last week? and libertarians say all ideas are better d

next, amol rajan takes a close look at a year dominated by covid—19 — and how it accelerated underlyingme to our look back at the media year in 2020. and if there's one word i don't think we've heard enough of this year, it's unprecedented. when it comes to the media, the pandemic has had a cataclysmic effect. local and national media, especially those funded by advertising, have had one long nightmare.