For decades, popular media was a gatekeeper’s game. A handful of studios (Hollywood’s "Big Five") and television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) decided what the public watched. Entertainment content was monolithic; if you wanted to see a movie, you went to a theater. If you missed an episode of M A S H* or The Ed Sullivan Show , you were simply out of luck. This scarcity created a shared cultural experience—the "water cooler moment" where everyone discussed the same show the next morning.
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