I felt the same way until I came across the ninth point of the OP...which is a sound observation. I think most people who used Twitter at some point experienced an event where the free flowing of information about the event as it unfolded in real-time satisfy their want for information. Especially when the information possessed the informal presentation that traditional media does not typically have.
When you see a photo of Mike Brown's body laying in the street hours after he had been shot with his hands (allegedly) raised I reckon that you may form a lasting impression about the relationship between Black and Blue that will persist long after the official narrative is distributed.
I think people who have experienced this are exhausted. This sort of information exchange that is very serious and very real and very human cannot coexist where information that is not like that is also exchanged (but I may be digressing...).
The Powers That Be™ benefitted by both allowing them to become exhausted and by poisoning the well and making sure that the free discourse is as unsatisfying as possible and later platforms are echo chambers where the people most likely to congregate on platforms of outside importance can be satisfied by their shared dissatisfaction.
And all the cooks in the kitchen exist with the diners of their respective persuasions to cook and serve a meal some say is to die for.
When you see a photo of Mike Brown's body laying in the street hours after he had been shot with his hands (allegedly) raised I reckon that you may form a lasting impression about the relationship between Black and Blue that will persist long after the official narrative is distributed.
I think people who have experienced this are exhausted. This sort of information exchange that is very serious and very real and very human cannot coexist where information that is not like that is also exchanged (but I may be digressing...).
The Powers That Be™ benefitted by both allowing them to become exhausted and by poisoning the well and making sure that the free discourse is as unsatisfying as possible and later platforms are echo chambers where the people most likely to congregate on platforms of outside importance can be satisfied by their shared dissatisfaction.
And all the cooks in the kitchen exist with the diners of their respective persuasions to cook and serve a meal some say is to die for.