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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 31 December, 2025 3:20 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] why do we still need mainstream news media?

 

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

 
>>… 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…

Then he did the important work for them: took the story to a medium where there is a far bigger audience.  The mainstream media had been reporting that story for years, but I never heard of it until last week.  So if we have people who will do this free, why do we need mainstream media to do the hard work?

 

>>>…nor would he be interested in any story unless it made the Republicans look good or made the Democrats look bad….


>> 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…

 

I see, so you are OK with aligning the other mainstream party with corruption?  Or with destitute needy immigrants?  Or suggesting that one party wants to import only highly educated immigrants and the other wants destitute needy immigrants?  Do clarify please.

 

>… had exposed additional corruption….

 

All corruption is bad.  I don’t care what party or what nationality.

 

>>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…

John K Clark

 

Well imagine that.  But John, Musk has multibillion dollar businesses, you do not.  A workable solution: encourage those who were kicked off of TwitterX for criticizing Musk to go over to extropolis and post there.  It is allowed, no problem.  In the meantime, like or not, TwitterX is the world’s extropolis, the free open town hall, where everything is allowed except criticism of the guy who owns the place.  There are other things to talk about besides what a bad guy Musk is, plenty of other things.

 

spike

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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