On January 12, 2021, CNN president Jeff Zucker announced that the CNN Airport Network (the service ...

On January 12, 2021, CNN president Jeff Zucker announced that the CNN Airport Network (the service that beamed the cable news channel's content into airport terminals across the United States) was shutting down as of March 31, 2021. This decision was in response to the decline in airline passenger traffic and the rise of available streaming news video on mobile phones, making the ad-supported airport network no longer a profitable operation. In this age of communication technology, is traditional mainstream mass media becoming obsolete? Why and/or why not?