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

[John Clark]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025  <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>> … Nick Shirley can't afford to hire a team of investigative reporters…*
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>  *> He doesn’t need one to do what he did.  *



*That's true because the mainstream media had already done all the hard
work for him. *



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>> *>>…nor would he be interested in any story unless it made the
>> Republicans look good or made the Democrats look bad….*
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> *> Wait, are you suggesting that corruption in Minnesota is related to a
> particular party?*


*The story was about Somali immigrants and one political party hates
immigrants, especially immigrants that have a certain complexion (Norwegian
immigrants are OK) but the other political party does not. If Nick Shirley
had exposed corruption, or I should say had exposed *additional*
corruption, in one of Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600 Percent's companies*
,* would you still be using him as an example of the wonderful value of
TwitterX?  *

*>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.*


*On my list people have criticized me and have done so with vigor, but I
have never even come close to kicking them off because I have only two
rules, don't be stupid and don't be boring, and some of my critics were not
stupid and none of them were boring. During the last 4 years I've only
kicked one person off my list and that was not because he criticized me, it
was because he posted a spam advertisement, and that violated both of my
rules.  *

*John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
rbd
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