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While I agree with you, I'm not sure this is all that different from the older "man on the street" interviews that consisted of four or five seemingly random pe
by Mountain_Skies 7y ago
While I agree with you, I'm not sure this is all that different from the older "man on the street" interviews that consisted of four or five seemingly random people with two or three sentences from each. It wouldn't be difficult to get the opinions you wanted to print by just asking people on the street until you enough of them said things you wanted to quote.
- Jamwinner 7y agoWhen you have millions of men, on millions of streets, the tone changes. Instead of being beholden to limited people you could run into, even in a dense city, who would express a view in person, you get the attention-seeking tweets of the litteral world to choose your narritve from. The ease of creating a new account and attaining followers, legit or not, is worth mentioning as well. Its not even an easily manipulatable resource at that point, just a blank check for insanity.