But the tide is turning quite rapidly now. The Nine O'Clock News on the BBC attracts around nine million viewers, a great many of whom will be people who watch out of habit alongside people in public locations who have no say in the matter.
By contrast, new media channels whip their posteriors every single day. The likes of Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Dan Bongino, and Charlie Kirk regularly score fifteen million hits on their websites every single day, and an awful.lot more when a major story is breaking.