Online comments are like online petitions: ostensibly “listening” to keep the masses from calling/mailing their representatives or the FCC directly. Persuasion

Online comments are like online petitions: ostensibly “listening” to keep the masses from calling/mailing their representatives or the FCC directly. Persuasion requires messages that are difficult/impossible to ignore: culturally and politically. Moore’s mock funeral for an HMO patient denied a live-saving transplant worked because it was over-the-top and so widely covered.