Covid-2019 - 2022-10-27

The mainstream media doesn't really know what to do with competing social media like Twitter -- so far, they've found ways to use it and co-opt it, even while being outcompeted by it. One safety valve, at least, is that there have been shared political values -- until libertarian Elon Musk took over Twitter yesterday, and demonstrated he's going to throw out everything but the kitchen sink. To the mainstream media is still groping for ways to trash him. The New York Times' contribution to the experimental efforts today is to call him, in a headline, a "geopolitical chaos agent." Well, at least it's original. See "Recommended Reading," of course.