Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media

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1. 01Monitoring the situation or MTS launched today as a new always on media network on X, covering tech, business, politics, and culture in real time
2. 02In the early nineteen eighties, CNN introduced twenty four hour coverage built around whatever mattered most in the moment
3. 03This episode originally aired on Monitoring the Situation, examines how media evolved into this system and what it means for politics, culture, and decision making