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2019-01-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Can the Republic Survive the Mainstream Media?

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-29 02:35|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 No. Cause its an oligarchy now. However, there's an opportunity for a second one after the war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-29 07:02|| 2019-01-29 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 They have accepted a business model based on clicks, and with that you wind up with distilled click-bait. If the customer's hair isn't on fire with the headline, why even bother. Worse yet, this doesn't represent any kind of strategy, it just the default evolution. What a rational adult would correctly see as prejudice, even if they were in favor of it, isn't remotely a bug it is the life blood of their industry.

Posted by Cesare 2019-01-29 11:42|| 2019-01-29 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 We may need to take a "living breathing document" approach to their Constitutional protections.

After all, just as there were no automatic weapons in the eighteenth century, there was no internet or social media, or TV or radio, either.

I can't imagine they'd have any problem with that, given their cheerleading for similar treatment of others.

Posted by charger 2019-01-29 16:44|| 2019-01-29 16:44|| Front Page Top

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