Even when I was younger, I was baffled by how people could get their news just from TV, because the amount of information in a TV news report was so tiny compared to what you'd get in a newspaper. When I hear that people view TikTok as their main news source, it's like telling me people wear watermelons as socks. It's so nuts its hard for me to even bring the concept into my brain.

The TV will have maybe 5 stories, each told in one way only.

The Internet (including TikTok) will have nearly unlimited stories, told in unlimited ways.

I remember very well when just a few powerful people were allowed to decide what the public would be allowed to know and not know. They could suppress huge stories and leave the public in the dark. For example Chernobyl. They still try that today in print media and television, but have become a pathetic laughing stock now that information is free.

Somebody getting news from TikTok will probably be better informed than somebody relying only on print or TV.