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As a conduit of political news dissemination, it services a different segment: namely, the segment of people who predominantly get news online.

• scholia 10y ago
  But that's a self-selecting audience. Facebook users can either look at tending news or ignore it. It's not a political demographic, or if it is, that's incidental.
  • rdancer 10y ago
    It's a segment of the populus who have thus far been uniquely positioned to make up their own mind. That has political implications in a democracy that relies on media to shape the electorate's consensus. As Milo Yiannopoulous recently commented on the 2016 primaries: "If the lying mainstream media ever had the power to shape elections, those days are gone." Will that baton be simply picked up by the new media?
    • scholia 10y ago
      Oh dear. Are you one of Nero's "flying monkeys"? Milo ‘Nero’ Yiannopoulous aka Milo Andreas Wagner but originally Milo Hanrahan is certainly a character: see The Blog That Peter Wrote for some interesting background. However, his record at The Catholic Herald and The Kernel suggests you could probably find better sources on journalism. The Blog That Peter Wrote Wednesday, 16 January 2013 The Art of Self-Loathing http://archive.is/cTgqq http://archive.is/cTgqq Guy Debord's Cat March 24, 2015 Let’s Talk About: Milo Yiannopoulos https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-milo-yiannopoulos/ https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/lets-talk-about-m... Milo Yiannopoulos and the Kernel https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulous-and-the-kernel/ https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulou... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-payout-order-contributor http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/08/kernel-face-pay... http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
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