Are we only comparing the best of the best in each? Because both can be great in their best form.

But if I had to pick one and lose the other, for the good of society, I can’t imagine the videos are helping more than the written word is helping.

For example, we’ve only had 1 president in the USA since television who was shorter than 5’11.5", Jimmy Carter. We refuse to elect short people now that we can see them.

Videos can be misleading, unhelpful, and fail to paint the whole picture. Look no further than the society we live in today, where loads of fake videos get pumped out and then we need written articles to explain all the things wrong with the video.

Obviously fake info can be written down too, but we have a much bigger problem with fake videos. TikTok is the modern equivalent of a newspaper. Newspapers have laws about what they’re allow to print. At least half the stuff on TikTok is engagement bait, ads, political ads, etc.

In which era were people better informed? Print era or video era?