The points of production and points of consumption of content in traditional media include:

In traditional media the point where content is produced and the point where it is consumed involve temporal separation, a time gap between making and receiving.

An imaginary barrier suggests a merely felt or fictional divide, whereas the real separation in traditional media is one of time between production and reception.

Seamless marketing describes smooth promotional flow, which is not the defining relationship between the making and consuming of traditional content.

Excessive dependence on technology fits later digital systems rather than the built-in time lag of traditional print and broadcast.

A newspaper is written and printed first and read hours later, showing this gap clearly.

Digital media, by contrast, narrow this gap towards real time.