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my media change strategy is i've been trying to goad local weather service bureaus into *growing* by making fun of their jpgs.

I don't think covering Trump saying awful stuff is what turns the polls, as people were saying during R primary (look at the enormous drop he took in his post-convention run), so much as a lot of the puff going out in the last week that really normalizes & humanizes him (Fallon, Oz)

i suspect that were going to see generally tougher coverage from here on out because enough of the media is sensible enough to be afraid of a trump presidency and were already approaching never seen before panicked rhetoric from agitators within media landscape

What actually needs to happen is more positive coverage of Hillary and less coverage of Trump period. IDK if it's more the Clinton campaign's or media's fault that this is not happening.

considering that trump represents a specific existential risk to a free press and is explicitly campaigning against them it's pretty silly that they haven't waged outright war on him. they were willing to sell all their principles to make some money off page views, but when it comes to threats to change libel laws, restrict access to press enemies, etc, that's when "both sides of the story" ideologies must be preserved?

and by press i really am mostly thinking of the nyt. wapost hasn't been terrible. nyt has been just the worst. ap, too. npr - not great. all these voices of /neutral/ america.

also have to say ppl scoffing at the power of social media is kinda odd, like yeah it might be often frivolous and bizarre, but these are the largest media companies in the history of the world by far, hundreds of millions of ppl use them (over a billion for facebook), of course theyre extremely influential

I think there's probably something in all of this about the collision of a potentially disastrous election with an "old media" anxious about its continued relevancy and viability and a "new media" still feeling things out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsfPOAfVMAAf-V6.jpg

https://cdn.meme.am/images/100x100/951.jpg

btw I'm not just talking about "clickbait" here I'm talking about the impulse people seem to have to need to have a take on every single word that comes out of Trump's mouth, while very little gets said about Hillary. I think some of it is just instinctive and internalized -- Trump is good entertainment, and everyone in journalism is, to an extent, trained to look for that, even if s/he also has higher and better aims.

but also closer races are more exciting and better for page views and drive more eyeballs so stories that humanize trump and his supporters + stories that cast suspicion [sometimes warranted, often not] on hillary are good for business

and reporters love stories

of course most of the actual non horse race trump stories remain unreported

last four posts otm

sorry I had a conf call had to exit thread briefly...

it's kind of insane what kind of criminal mastermind hill has been even as she's passing away, murdering DNC staffers and bleaching email servers and what not.

dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏)
Posted: September 16, 2016 at 12:34:43 PM
lol flopson I haven't gotten any notifications so either I commented on a dead thread or he's blocked me in some way on fb now

it was a comment about this article: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/degrasse-tyson-kriss-atheists
he somehow missed the point and was complaining that homophobic, racist evangelicals are a much bigger threat than atheists so why are you picking on atheists

lol this comment just popped up on my facebook didnt seem nearly ban worthy, just a polite reasoned argument that disagreed w him wth

@HeerJeet
1. I want to talk about why Canadian fiction has so many stories about people having sex with animals & vegetables.

what is trump is so bad, him being president actually convinces congress to roll back the legislation allowing g the president additional emergency powers to send troops

then we should be back to Moreno votes and they can just keep overriding him until he pisses himself (on a day he forgets to wear diaper)

more no votes, that is

wish people would stop mocking incontinent americans. it's a larger part of our population than people care to admit

hoping trump is so bad we just dont elect him

yah

ap lede, media may be turning a corner

WASHINGTON (AP) — After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama's birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America. He then immediately peddled another false conspiracy.

https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada

uh oh

"brumpbo tungus," haven't seen that in a minute

lol

https://twitter.com/ORTECHCanada/status/777908430023585792

this was me

pretty scary for those two minutes when my username was that lol

wow learn something new abt ilxors every day

i'm nazi btw

Fair to say that ORTECH Consulting did... NAZI this one coming

damn what's the delay on this thing

i think they're deleting :(

dang, didn't get the chance to follow with "Ortech did 9/11"

So far I am noticing that early twitter use feels oddly like work, where you feel this need to do things to get followers and increase your reach.

lmao

https://twitter.com/Justin__Bebis/status/777932050535944192

just had my first multiple-retweeted tweet, woot

congrats

can I give u a Twitter tip hurting... don't use hashtags unironically

never hashtag ever

cool thx

I think all the handful of times I used hashtags so far were either ironic or in response to a specific thing (i.e dumb games where you're supposed to come up with a pun) except maybe one

oh cool, first thing to have really freaked me out in a while:

https://twitter.com/gretagrain/with_replies

guy w/ 0 follows/ers tweets obsessive gnomic shit, mostly at women, also music youtubes

hope to god it's a bot.

i followed him

dear reader, i followed him

can't believe you found my second account I mentioned

ha

http://i.imgur.com/ikUKK41.png

lag∞n's feed too offensive for even the misogynists of twitter