[ExI] why do we still need mainstream news media?

Tue Dec 30 13:01:45 UTC 2025

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
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>>… but nothing happened.  Now… one video, 120 million views in four days.

>…And MrBeast has amassed over 105 billion views, but other than taking credit for what others had discovered, what exactly has Nick Shirley accomplished? 

John K Clark

Did MrBeast do a story on it and post it?    Nick Shirley brought this situation to the attention of the masses.  Others discovered this corruption before he did, but apparently failed to post it where there was a lot of audience, which is TwitterX.  Now something is happening.  

The mainstream news people need to go where the audience is.  They don’t need cable news services.  They can use TwitterX free.  Let the mainstream news people compete with everyone else for audience.  That would be an interesting experiment: see if mainstream news people can compete with MrBeast and amateur news people like Nick Shirley.  

TwitterX is a gift.

spike

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> > On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] why do we still need mainstream news media?

On Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 9:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 A 23 yr old amateur found what the mainstream news media would never talk about.

 Note this video was has 121 million views in four days:

https://x.com/i/status/2004642794862961123

 So why do we still need mainstream news?

>... to measure their spin as a point of reference for other streams?

I am not sure I understand that comment, but if an amateur investigative journalist can do all this, I no longer see any useful function of the professional news people.

>…Or wait, didja mean production of mainstream media?

Ja, sure did.

>… If there were no MSM, there would still be mainstream 'views' as in +/- 1 STDEV from the distribution of all views available…

OK but… they cost a lot of money to produce.  Amateurs can produce stories like that link, for almost nothing, and the viewership is thru the roof, something 60 Minutes could only dream of.

This one guy has blown the lid off of this story, which has been around for a long time, several years.  Reporters wrote about it, but nothing happened.  Now… one video, 120 million views in four days.

>…but I guess it's still easier to track the fewer MSM programming channels…

The viewer count is still going up more than a million views per hour.

Advertisers paying for those MSM channels are seeing this and asking themselves why they are wasting money on the establishment.  This was a turning point.  Now… we collectively realize why TwitterX is so valuable, waaaaay more than the paltry 45 billion it sold for recently.  That place is now the world’s newspapers, the world’s news television.  There is no further reason to bother with mainstream media, none.  The citizen reporter vision has become reality.

spike  

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