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 In the caption, [[Randall]] suggests it would be pointless to argue with newspaper publishers about their ideas.  Presumably Randall believes publishers who fall for those ideas are already out of touch with the new generation, and would not be able to understand why those ideas lack merit.  Instead, he suggests taking the trend to a ridiculous extreme, by telling publishers that young people like {{w|making out}}.  Suppose publishers follow the same pattern and try to cram news into this as well, they would end up creating some form of news program centered around making out.  The results may turn out completely laughable or highly entertaining.  If the former, it could serve as a wake-up call to publishers that they need to reconsider their approach.  If the latter, then it could actually become a trend and unexpectedly reinvigorate the industry.
-In the title text it seems like the news agency actually consider this idea, or is at least confused enough to ask. Their interpretation of combining "making out" with news is to make it sexy, but the next speaker says that this has been tried before and doesn't work. This is likely a reference to Naked News (no link due to {{w|NSFW}}-ness), a news program that does that: it features attractive women delivering the news while simultaneously disrobing. This concept has not, for obvious reasons, gone mainstream.
+In the title text it seems like the news agency actually consider this idea, or is at least confused enough to ask. Their interpretation of combining "making out" with news is to make it sexy, but the next speaker says that this has been tried before and doesn't work. This is likely a reference to {{w|Naked News}}, a news program that does that: it features attractive women delivering the news while simultaneously disrobing. This concept has not, for obvious reasons, gone mainstream.
 According to the speaker, merely making the news sexy is not enough – the news content must be ''directly'' integrated into the making out; how this would be accomplished is as yet unclear.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic is a commentary on the growing {{w|publishing industry}} and their successful/unsuccessful attempts at regaining an audience.
+This comic is a commentary on the growing {{w|media industry}} and their successful/unsuccessful attempts at regaining an audience.
-News media has evolved dramatically as the world entered the {{w|information era}}.  {{w|Newspapers}}, which were at one point the most widely distributed and consumed form of media, have rapidly been eclipsed by new technologies such as {{w|television}}, {{w|Internet}}, and {{w|streaming video}}.  Subscriptions to paper-based media have been drastically declining to the point where many {{w|publishers}} are on the verge of shutting down.  While publishers are making an effort to move their content to newer, more popular forms of media, in many cases they are still clearly behind the times.
+In 2015, news media began an industry-wide transition away from text and towards video content, in what became known as the "pivot to video." News media has evolved dramatically as the world entered the {{w|information era}}.  {{w|Newspapers}}, which were at one point the most widely distributed and consumed form of media, had rapidly been eclipsed by new technologies such as {{w|television}}, {{w|Internet}}, and {{w|streaming video}}, and subscriptions to paper-based media were drastically declining to the point where many {{w|publishers}} were on the verge of shutting down. Thus, many media sites started moving their content to video, as based on statistics that it was more popular, especially among younger consumers. However, the logic behind it was specious, as this comic shows. In 2016, it was revealed that the "pivot to video" was largely driven by inaccurate numbers touted by Facebook; while many sites continued trying to attract younger viewers with video content, the "pivot to video" became largely seen as a failed strategy.
 The comic illustrates one such example with [[Cueball]] suggesting presenting news stories as videos rather than text. This is presented and received by [[Megan]], [[Hairbun]] and [[Hairy]] as a clever new idea that would appeal to young people based on the fact that they like watching {{w|YouTube}} videos. However, apparently no one in the comic has realized that television news programs have been filling such a niche for decades and that young people are just as uninterested. In fact, online video based news is often considered annoying, especially if autoplaying or if there is no text based alternative. In reality, this idea is not at all original and likely to be doomed to fail from the start.  As with many similar attempts, the new "ideas" that publishers are trying to adopt are merely cramming news content into things young people like, without really understanding why they like it and without considering whether news would be a good fit.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic is a commentary on the growing {{w|publishing industry}} and their successful attempts at regaining an audience.
+This comic is a commentary on the growing {{w|publishing industry}} and their successful/unsuccessful attempts at regaining an audience.
 News media has evolved dramatically as the world entered the {{w|information era}}.  {{w|Newspapers}}, which were at one point the most widely distributed and consumed form of media, have rapidly been eclipsed by new technologies such as {{w|television}}, {{w|Internet}}, and {{w|streaming video}}.  Subscriptions to paper-based media have been drastically declining to the point where many {{w|publishers}} are on the verge of shutting down.  While publishers are making an effort to move their content to newer, more popular forms of media, in many cases they are still clearly behind the times.

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 In the caption, [[Randall]] suggests it would be pointless to argue with newspaper publishers about their ideas.  Presumably Randall believes publishers who fall for those ideas are already out of touch with the new generation, and would not be able to understand why those ideas lack merit.  Instead, he suggests taking the trend to a ridiculous extreme, by telling publishers that young people like {{w|making out}}.  Suppose publishers follow the same pattern and try to cram news into this as well, they would end up creating some form of news program centered around making out.  The results may turn out completely laughable or highly entertaining.  If the former, it could serve as a wake-up call to publishers that they need to reconsider their approach.  If the latter, then it could actually become a trend and unexpectedly reinvigorate the industry.
-In the title text it seems like the news agency actually consider this idea, or is at least confused enough to ask. Their interpretation of combining "making out" with news is to make it sexy, but the next speaker says that this has been tried before and doesn't work. This is likely a reference to Naked News (no link due to {{w|NSFW}}-ness), a news program that does that: it features attractive women delivering the news while simultaneously disrobing. This concept has not, for some reason, spread to the mainstream.
+In the title text it seems like the news agency actually consider this idea, or is at least confused enough to ask. Their interpretation of combining "making out" with news is to make it sexy, but the next speaker says that this has been tried before and doesn't work. This is likely a reference to Naked News (no link due to {{w|NSFW}}-ness), a news program that does that: it features attractive women delivering the news while simultaneously disrobing. This concept has not, for obvious reasons, gone mainstream.
 According to the speaker, merely making the news sexy is not enough – the news content must be ''directly'' integrated into the making out; how this would be accomplished is as yet unclear.