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story today about Trump's press room, the nation's birdcage liner, oh, wait, I mean, "Newspaper of Record," the New York Times, said:
Mr. Trump’s unconventional, sometimes hostile, relationship with the news media and his penchant for communicating through unfiltered Twitter posts threaten to upend a decades-old Washington tradition that
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Oh, man. Twitter's already looking for a buyer. Imagine if Trump bought it?
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I didn't even think of the money angle, but you're absolutely right.
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It's hilarious watching them flail around because they can't control this guy. He is not afraid of them, and they find that terrifying. And I say, It's about time a Republican grew a damn spine.
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I'm me, and I approve of this message!
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don't particularly need their kind of "conduit."
And that, of course, is the real foundation of their complaint - as you say, their role as gatekeepers of information is being superceded. They're being increasingly disregarded, becoming irrelevant, and they don't like it!
A friend of mine was describing how this was working for the world of SF/F fandom - the litigation-appointed commissars of Correct Thought, the “gatekeepers” whose nod you had to get to be published, have lost their monopoly on publishing and are seeing everyone else simply push past them now, leaving them squawking and demanding and ruling a dwindling flock of starlings.
“Information wants to be free,” as the old hacker saying goes. So do people.
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Anyway, yeah, it's interesting how the gatekeepers in SFF are trying to grip the genre tighter only to see it slipping through their fingers. Baen, I believe, was the first to really, really embrace the new e-reader tech, and they've done the Free Library for as long as I can remember.
It doesn't help that the New York publishing houses live in a sort of echo chamber of political correctness and seem to think that pushing check-box message fic onto us is the way to go, when in reality people who read for entertainment really do not like being preached at. And they wonder why they're bleeding readers.
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For the country, however--that's a different story. I sincerely hope he keeps his promise to stop the hemorrhaging at our border. And while I'm not confident that he's actually read the Constitution, I'm fairly certain he doesn't despise it and view it as an obstacle the way Hillary seems to--especially the 2nd Amendment. I'm hoping that he will appoint judges that won't pull their opinions out of thin air based on what they think is "right" rather than what the law actually says, because that is not their job. That, too, would be nice. I would ( ... )
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