Twenty years ago, "popular media" meant a shared experience. If you asked someone about the season finale of Friends or the American Idol winner, statistically, they had an opinion. Television networks and major film studios acted as gatekeepers, funneling the public through a narrow pipeline of prime-time slots and blockbuster weekends.
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