re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I spend a lot of time on this hobbyhorse, but I will jump back on it again: when people rely on their FB feed for news on anything other than what their friends and family are up to, and when “trending on Twitter” became a news item in and of itself, I began to fear for the future of the Republic.

Now we have Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress and a President who expresses his policy initiatives in the form of Tweets.

Social media had nothing to do with Iraq, traditional media failed on that and failed at the 2016 campaign. Ironically many of these were print and online which you seem to implicitly grant your consumption to. Although you do get news from those other icky places by virtue of coming here.