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I've got a sort of morbid fascination with the COVID denial scene on Twitter. Every few days I check out this guy Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii, 500k+ followers),
by dmitryminkovsky 7y ago
I've got a sort of morbid fascination with the COVID denial scene on Twitter. Every few days I check out this guy Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii, 500k+ followers), and it's been interesting to see how he's adapted. This tweet captures it well:
https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1246812006960726018?s=21 https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/124681200696072601...
Not sure if Paul is looking at this kind of thing, but from this essay I'm not sure he really grasps how fractured the media consumption landscape is at the moment. The tide hasn't come out from under many, if any, of these people. Their position is as strong as ever. They have their own moons, their own oceans and their own tides.
- Gibbon1 7y agoYou'd probably like this. Compare. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Mar 2nd. https://twitter.com/germanrlopez/status/1247210000155643904/photo/1 https://twitter.com/germanrlopez/status/1247210000155643904/... San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Mar 2nd. https://twitter.com/germanrlopez/status/1247210000155643904/photo/2 https://twitter.com/germanrlopez/status/1247210000155643904/...
- dmitryminkovsky 7y agoWow I'm based in New York so I've been on the Bill de Blasio beat and totally missed London Breed. She nailed it. Holy moly. Big ups to London Breed! (Were those supposed to be two different links?)
- Gibbon1 7y agoI tried to make them two different links, one to Blasio and the Other to Breed. Didn't work. I feel some of the difference might be due to California's experience with fires and earthquakes. The politicians have a habit of listening and acting on what public safety officials tell them. And the public tends understand. For instance last year they started shutting off the power during high wind events. They aren't happy with PGE but no ones been calling for the politicians heads over it.