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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] why do we still need mainstream news media?

 

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025, 8:19 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

He does now.  TwitterX makes everyone a reporter.

>…You only see this as positive?

 

https://breakyourownnews.com

 

>…Now add AI

 

>…If you thought the masses suckling at Fox News' teat was bad, imagine what the decentralized BS machine can do…

 

Mike the advantage of decentralizing the BS machine is that it gives the masses a healthy skepticism of what they see and read, something the masses have long needed.

 

I don’t get the mainstream cable news sources myself for I do not buy cable TV.  I see references to a lot of mainstream media on TwitterX but do not subscribe to them myself.  I see no point in paying for something I can get free and better.

 

I see places like TwitterX as the mainstream equivalent of Extropolis or the Everything List, or Extropians: anyone can post anything they want on X except direct criticism of the guy who owns the place, which is understandable from his point of view.  There is plenty to talk about which isn’t that.

 

Regarding that Nick Shirley video, what that will do is cause hundreds of amateur reporters to verify what he did.  He probably swept up some innocent daycare facilities in with the bad guys, well OK then, no problem.  Watch the parking lot, see if kids show up.  Count them.  Does that number agree with what they are being paid for?  This allows citizens to assist the government which is shorthanded apparently, if they have been investigating this for years but never found the over 100 million dollars a year going to apparently defunct social service providers.  So… no problem, let’s find out.  Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

 

spike

 

spike

 

 

 

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