The blitz of sex “scandals” and abuses like those of Anthony Weiner, O’Reilly, Franken, Lauer, Cosby, oh, and our President, is that one particular subject is not being addressed in any of the gazillion reports we have heard since such tweets hit the fan: the social network effect.
Read MoreWho can argue that cable TV teems with killer comedy. I mean, have you watched CNN, MSNBC or FOX News channels lately? Good gracious, those guys are funnier than a bus filled with school kids careening into a canyon.
Read MoreThe masses know what Facebook is but are loathe to abandon its trappings. Facebook is a colossal front for the corporate schemes of an ostensibly maladjusted, boundlessly manipulative young man.
Read MoreMedia outlets and those who helm them live and die by our eyes. Freedom of Speech lives and dies by the bundles of dough that hail it or kill it. That combo alone makes for treacherous turf.
Read MoreWe're in this mess of a Trump presidency today, partly due to the Washington Post. They were the folks who, in 2011, invited Trump to their dinner table at a time when he was neck-deep in his birther conspiracy war against that black dude who occupied that big white house.
Read MoreStripped of its guise, however, social media is brandish, brackish bunk acutely positioned for technologists to monitor our goings on in order to gather market intelligence and sell widgets or worse.
Read MoreThe Huffington Post is a non-profit for everyone but Arianna Huffington. She dreams of the day when a billion citizens contribute to her empire made of mist. And those dreams may very well come true.
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