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Originally Posted by darkanddivine
In essence, a majority of online conversation is driven by a small but very loud group of people with exceptionally narrow viewpoints...
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...whose exceptionally narrow viewpoints are given instant credibility by traditional media outlets (that should know better) cutting and pasting reflexively from social media in pitiful attempts to seem relevant.
If social media nonsense wasn't bad enough when confined to social media, it now gets plastered all over traditional media out of journalistic laziness (and, I suspect, swingeing editorial cuts).
It's extremely frustrating. Someone's tantrum on Twitter shouldn't drive public debate, much less public policy.