Do you miss "the old days" re: news/music/mags etc

[CandleInTheStorm]

For both the worker and the consumer? The days when everything wasn't instant as in news/music/TV etc.

When newspapers and magazines were important and there was a genuine buzz in the office (so I'm told) when an exclusive was found out. When magazines were fun and all about "the gossip" and working in that environment involved busy offices and boozy lunches/nights out with drinks etc.

When the music industry was full of money/good music/real breakthrough artists/talent and lots of booze (and I hate to say it drugs) and parties.

When we didn't know everything 24/7 and it wasn't instant and/or so disposable?

Don’t care about magazines or much about music but wow I miss the world before everyone had the internet in their pocket.

I was telling my DC about the days when everyone in your class at school would be watching the same TV show - you’d all chat the day before and get excited, then it would be dissected the next day. Often with the teacher too. DS1 said that sounded really nice and he wished that happened these days too.

They also found it hysterical that we used to go on nights out where you inevitably lost all your mates, cos no phones, and everyone would basically have some random separate night out story of where they ended up and how they got home. Fun times. Likewise travel - I was basically off grid for months, DC will need to text me their whereabouts every five minutes bless them

No, your mixing up a coming of age/innocence of youth issue and conflating many issues.

I'm gen x and was a dj with a free party network, went to and hosted loads of illegal raves in the late 80's/early 90's across europe and took more than enough chemicals that could bring down a rhino on a single night
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it was a controlled media back then, as a relatively recent example it took a quite a few years for the likes of the Guardian or more music specialist mags such as NME/Melody maker to realising acid house/rave wasn't just listening to car alarms and would be influential worldwide. solely dictated via
It can go also keep stepping decades back with regards to early hip hop, Indie, new romantic, soul and jazz etc, etc, the benefit of the internet is that there is no reliance on lead editors on what 'trends' to publish and that youth fashion trends can't be solely dictated via paid magazines with an editor.

I didn't want the distilled narrative growing up and that is what I rebelled against with adopting the birth of the internet (and now selling out as being in control of algorithms), essentially it is just you realising your out of the loop and are essentially rehashing a 'In my day...@ narrative

24 hour news has been a catastrophe. I remember my grandfather saying that the weeks after Dunkirk were the most surreal of his life. People just carried on as if nothing had happened - playing cricket, moaning about the weather, etc. We were on the brink of invasion, and nobody seemed to realise. Compare that to today!!

That's a really interesting perspective thank you, about certain editors basically having the final say on "trends" and what's hot or not.