bmw wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:11 am
.... Which brings me to a question I have yet to see adequately answered - Why is anything that Elon does with Twitter even newsworthy? I can understand when it was a publicly traded company, but it isn't any more. A private individual owns the company, and said private individual answers to nobody. Period. Elon has as much of a right to ban anybody he wants as MW has to ban people in here. What is the difference between there and here, other than the size of the user base?
... I have an answer. The only reason the media continues to obsess over Elon Musk and twitter is because prior to Elon, Twitter and the people who ran it were of the same ideology as most in the media, and Twitter became a powerful tool at the media's disposal to wield power, push their agenda, and silence their critics. They view Elon as a direct threat to that power, and so they're doing what people who lose power do best: lashing out at the perceived threat ...
You may be overlooking something. The media (and the entertainment industry) are addicted to Twitter.
They cannot go five minutes without looking at that phone.
How often you see on our local news people have that phone laying right on the anchor desk? And glancing down at it while they are on the air?
It's crack to them. Gotta seen what's been posted, and got to see it now.
Another good example is when journalist write a story.
First they will tell you what someone said on Twitter. Then they will have a picture of the Twitter post in the article.
Saying the same thing twice. It's a good example of how infatuated they are with it.
Twitter is the media's lifeblood. They will never abandon it. It's how they interact with the outside world.
It's been that way long before Musk ever thought of buying it.