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He's not wrong. But, it seems the American public is completely obsessed with the October Surprise. Everyone is waiting for that last minute piece of informatio

He's not wrong. But, it seems the American public is completely obsessed with the October Surprise. Everyone is waiting for that last minute piece of information that will flip the entire election on its head. And why not? Social and mass media have been training us to trawl for the "bug scoop" for decades now. The truth is, news doesn't happen overnight. If anything sufficiently important is to be determined true, it needs to happen over a course of weeks or months, as people process the information, debate with each other, and come to a consensus on what it means for the country. Just because we can have this conversation with smaller and more rapid steps due to technology doesn't mean that we can get to the destination any faster. So, in my opinion, burying this story is wrong. Amplifying it is also wrong. If Trump truly believes this is corruption, he should open an investigation, one that will be widely mocked as a political hit job and will still not finish until well into the next term. But, if you care about your country, you do it anyway. Not to win an election but because it's the right thing to do. I guess we'll see what happens.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> But, it seems the American public is completely obsessed with the October Surprise. The news media is. The public (especially, given the pace of early voting, this year) doesn't seem to be, as much.
- darkerside 6y ago
  I'd posit that even if they already voted, people are still checking the news to see if there is late breaking news that will affect the broader opinion, even if they "know" that it won't affect theirs. Anyway, my broader point is that Greenwald, and likely many others, feel immense pressure to get this out before the election, so that people have "all the relevant information", but the truth is, we never have all the relevant information because information exists in a continuum not a binary space.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> But, it seems the American public is completely obsessed with the October Surprise. The news media is. The public (especially, given the pace of early voting, this year) doesn't seem to be, as much.

darkerside 6y ago
I'd posit that even if they already voted, people are still checking the news to see if there is late breaking news that will affect the broader opinion, even if they "know" that it won't affect theirs. Anyway, my broader point is that Greenwald, and likely many others, feel immense pressure to get this out before the election, so that people have "all the relevant information", but the truth is, we never have all the relevant information because information exists in a continuum not a binary space.