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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] why do we still need mainstream news media?

 

On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 > The mainstream media had been reporting that story for years, but I never heard of it until last week.

 

>…That's because you only get your news from TwitterX….

 

Ja, as do the masses.  John the point is that TwitterX has audiences that the mainstream media can only dream of.  If any story is to get to the masses who don’t follow politics much (most of us don’t) then it needs to go over to TwitterX.  Mainstream media are becoming more and more irrelevant.

 

> if we have people who will do this free, 

 

>…Do what for free? 

 

Investigate and report on corruption.  That’s all Nick Shirley did.  He went into public records, printed out who was getting paid for being a daycare, went there, found no evidence children were being daycared.  This tipped a row of dominoes, for if that is happening in one state, it is probably happening in all of them.  Stand by for NEWS!

 

>…Certainly not investigative reporting because that is hard and most of the time it is boring and leads nowhere….

 

Ja.  The phony daycare businesses are low hanging fruit.  So pick that first.  Then go to other public domain government expense reports, follow the money.  It shouldn’t be hard or expensive, particularly in daycare facilities, because kids are noisy and hard to hide.  So start there.  

 

Anyone who digs up a scoop can make money on YouTube and TwitterX.  The citizen reporter has his day.

 

>… But reposting what somebody else had already discovered is easy….

 

OK so do that too.  Make a video, post it where there is actual audience.  Hey it worked for Nick Shirley.

 

> All corruption is bad. 

 

>…Is even the corruption committed by Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600 Percent bad, such as…

 

OK so don’t vote for him.  John you live in a state which voted against you.  Your presence in that state contributes (in a very small way of course) to the overall political influence of that state, and you know where that went.  Solution: move to a state which votes your way. 

 

In the meantime, I predict the Nick Shirley video will tip a row of dominoes which will result in phony daycares being found in nearly every state.  Until that video went mainstream, I was unaware that the corporate Medicaid funding recipient list is public domain.  Now we know.  Amateurs, go at it.  This is your chance to be what 60 Minutes was before 2004.

 

spike 

 

 

 

 

 

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