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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] why do we still need mainstream news media?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 9:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> A 23 yr old amateur found what the mainstream news media would never talk about.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Note this video was has 121 million views in four days:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2004642794862961123" target="_blank">https://x.com/i/status/2004642794862961123</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> So why do we still need mainstream news?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>... to measure their spin as a point of reference for other streams?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I am not sure I understand that comment, but if an amateur investigative journalist can do all this, I no longer see any useful function of the professional news people.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Or wait, didja mean production of mainstream media?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, sure did.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… If there were no MSM, there would still be mainstream 'views' as in +/- 1 STDEV from the distribution of all views available…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK but… they cost a lot of money to produce. Amateurs can produce stories like that link, for almost nothing, and the viewership is thru the roof, something 60 Minutes could only dream of.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This one guy has blown the lid off of this story, which has been around for a long time, several years. Reporters wrote about it, but nothing happened. Now… one video, 120 million views in four days.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…but I guess it's still easier to track the fewer MSM programming channels…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The viewer count is still going up more than a million views per hour.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Advertisers paying for those MSM channels are seeing this and asking themselves why they are wasting money on the establishment. This was a turning point. Now… we collectively realize why TwitterX is so valuable, waaaaay more than the paltry 45 billion it sold for recently. That place is now the world’s newspapers, the world’s news television. There is no further reason to bother with mainstream media, none. The citizen reporter vision has become reality.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>