Essentially every journalist, public intellectual, and op-ed writer in the country is trapped on this platform, being constantly bombarded with the opinions of a non-representative slice of the American public. Is that a good thing?https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1115719674786873345 …
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Trapped? You tweet more than virtually anyone I follow. You even read replies! It's true, most don't stay as calm as you do, wish they would. But if it's a disaster why do it at all?
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Replying to @Mikael__Ka
Media people's jobs depend on being on Twitter. Some enjoy it more than others.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @Mikael__Ka
This Tweet is spot on and should be a reminder that the top priority for most media folks is maintaining a profile visible to other media folks. And providing true and useful information to readers is third or fourth on that list. It’s almost incidental
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“The outspoken group of Democratic-leaning voters on social media is outnumbered, roughly 2 to 1, by the more moderate, more diverse and less educated group of Democrats who typically don’t post political content.”