General Discussion

We aren't the customer. We are the thing being sold, more specifically our attention is being sold.

I like that the push-out of Howard Dean is in their analysis but they don't seem to acknowledge that Howard Dean was 20 years ago and surprised the legacy media and DNC because both had never really had to deal with a candidate who organized on and leveraged in the internet. Sanders was the next big one on the Dem side.

Orange guy is a master troll. He played legacy media like a fiddle. He was the car crash they could not stop talking about (still can't). And he knew how to set the media agenda every day by doing something stupid, crass or outrageous.

The media is not ours, does not work for us and has only a tangental role in prosecutions. Typically when the media wants someone out, they run stories with headlines that include "-gate" eg Russia-gate. Because "gate" = watergate = impeach this person.

It is not the media's job to replace politicians or defeat them at the ballot box. It is our job.