Growing up post WWII the broadcast media's tone was mellow, moderate, lower in frequency, thoughtful. There was space to be had. Actual moments of dead air. This was peace time. It was during the 1950's. During the 60's, media ratcheted up their tone. Canned laughter was a byproduct of Edward Bernays' psychology of triggering people to buy or buy into. For decades comedy in media from Laurel and Hardy to Jack Benny to Groucho Marx had live audiences. The acts were funny and the audience responded accordingly. Saturday Night Live was a re-birth of the roots of television with a live audience. The skits were crazy funny to very strange and experimental. The first two seasons were quite loose but subsequent seasons became more corporate, less and less down time. Computerization of media has led to autotuning and compressing sounds and voice to be shrill and frantic in tone. Shouting, basically. Media has morphed from the calming voices of Walter Cronkite to Edward R. Murrow to CNN bat shit crazy people who talk down guests the management disagrees with. The talk-down is arrogant, condescending and, again, shrill. The voice pitch is much higher. Real world experienced deep throat broadcasters were cast aside for broadcast school graduates who are rote, uneducated teleprompter readers where there are no standouts. Why should there be? Media is now about "diversity" paramount to content and to those in the field to do actual journalism. News shows are PR shows for corporate products sold via financing and to get you more into owing to a bank. What we have are desperate competitive shrill younger people in media shouting at you in between LOUD commercials that portray white men as buffoons but cater straight to east Indians and illegal immigrants through images of people of color outnumber white people in any advertisement. The shrill fake news media is the enemy of the people. Silencing their noise by turning off the TV is a start to the road of sanity.