The mainstream media and the White House are equally handwringing on who the winners and losers are in the Twitter files saga.
These issues generally sift out by: Who has the power? And who has the viewership?
Power: With an evenly divided country, a divided U.S. House of Representatives, and divided U.S. Congress, only the bureaucrats in D.C. have some safeguards around power. These powerful forces include Homeland Security and the FBI. Bureaucrats leading these organizations have turned each into more of a political operation than a policing one, however. Each of these two brands are being tarnished daily as more and more files are released.
VIEWERSHIP
Social Shepherd reports: Twitter sees about 206 million daily active users, ensuring they’re always coming back to see what others are tweeting about.
MSM IS NOT COVERING IT, BUT ARE THEY STILL RELEVANT?
Mainstream media refuses to cover the Twitter files on government sponsored censorship. However, this is a mute point, as data shows they don’t amass the viewership numbers to censor the story. Compare the numbers below to Twitter’s 206 million daily active users.
Adweek reported in September: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir is officially the No. 1 evening newscast for the 2021′-22 TV season, with 8.145 million total daily viewers. NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt averaged 6.87 million daily viewers. CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell averaged 4.94 million total daily viewers. All combined, that’s less than 20 million daily viewers, or one tenth twitter’s daily participation. Oh, and Twitter historically skews even younger participants than these mainstream media outlets.
As celebrities, like Elton John, depart the platform, they make themselves increasingly irrelevant as well. Leaving disconnects these celebrities from the very fans following them.
Of course, Foxnews has the highest viewership of all mainstream media platforms. The Twitter files are widely covered across that news network.
IS MAINSTREAM CENSORSHIP NOW IRRELEVANT?
The numbers clearly say yes. The horse was relevant until the train interrupted that mode of transportation. Trains were central until Henry Ford began mass producing cars.
By insisting all leaked Twitter files be released on Twitter’s platform first, Elon Musk made mainstream censorship irrelevant in 2020.
NOW IN THE BULLSEYE
Jim Baker, (former FBI official), Dr. Anthony Faucci, Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security Head, the DNC, the mainstream media, former Twitter Chief Jack Dorsey, former twitter executives, and the Bidens are equally on the hot seat as long as Musk continues to drip these files.
And there is little the colluded censors can do about it, other than threaten Musk privately.