I think that video media is for reasons I cannot explain, a far more effective persuasive tool than written media. If your internet diet is YouTube/TikTok you're definitely just as vulnerable.
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman addresses this; it's more or less pre-internet but it speaks to how different media forms work quite differently due to their inherent nature. TV inherently is the way it is (and lectures, and newspapers, and all other forms of media) because it cannot be anything else.
I think we are agreeing. I think many people who consume a lot of TV media would be the same people who consume a lot of YouTube or TikTok. If the internet didn't exist heavy YouTube users would be watching hours of TV. This causes me to think the problem isn't so much TV causing distortions, but other factors that are not unique to TV.
