<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_4939872311104118928gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>… </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">OK so… now what?  TwitterX is free, Truth Social, Reason, Blue Sky, free free free.  These media have a magic way of collectively finding stuff out:</span></i></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4939872311104118928"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4939872311104118928WordSection1"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_4939872311104118928gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…TwitterX </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">also has a magic way of making stuff up… John <u></u><u></u></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Ja. This puts the responsibility (and the ability) of verification on the reader. </i></font></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">If</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> somebody's only news source is TwitterX then the only way they can judge the accuracy of a story that they have read on </span>TwitterX<span class="gmail_default" style=""> is by comparing it with other stories that they have also read on </span>TwitterX<span class="gmail_default" style="">. And the richest man in the world's algorithm triumphs yet again. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>We do not need or want an elite class of professional news reporters.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>I think we do, I think we need reporters that<span class="gmail_default" style=""> give us the facts, and who make a clear distinction between facts and opinions, in other words reporters that </span><span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>BOTH</u></span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> extreme left-wing <u>AND</u> extreme right-wing people hate with a vengeance. </span> </b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4939872311104118928"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4939872311104118928WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This helps the reader develop critical thinking skills, healthy skepticism and discernment.  Now the world no longer has professional class of people who shape public opinion.  This is a good thing.  Now public opinion is shaped by collective public opinion.  We do not need or want an elite class of professional news reporters.  We want an enormous class of ordinary people who are volunteer news reporters.  Information wants to be free.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>