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Kyle Askine's avatar

You are way beyond me - you complain it's hard for you to write blog posts - it took me 10 days to read something that was more than 280 characters!

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MonkeyChamp's avatar

I admire the sentiments of the author. Agree with a lot of this. However, am I to believe that I must be more interested in "local" politics...and not choosing this is incorrect? And by Local, I assume he means Local and not State politics at a higher level than Local. I do agree that obsessing over national politics to the exclusion of all else is bad. I should follow Local and State level politics more. Actually engaging in Local politics is easier for sure to make a difference. I have done this when my interests were involved. State and National politics DOES mean being more of a spectator and not a participator. Sure, you can canvas and do things. But, who wants to knock on the door of a Trumper with a Biden message?

As for Twitter...hasn't it been obvious that 99% of Twitter posts are pure garbage? And this has been easily seen for years. I've worked in IT and not journalism for 25 years. So, for a Journalist perhaps Twitter's toxicity was not as seen as easily? Even so, I'm skeptical of that. Journalists are very responsible for making Twitter far more important than it truly is for years. You bear some responsibility in enabling Twitter. Most Journalists do.

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