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Related: About this forumSeptember 8 moneybomb to celebrate Bernie's birthday
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,,,"the superstar social media entrepreneur Jenny Q. Ta, the founder and CEO of social media net-WORTHING platform sqeeqee.com. ... suggested that the advent of social media today creates a political impact as powerful as the impact of television during the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960.
"For our analysis today, Ms. Ta took the case further, telling me: We should never underestimate the power of popularity plus social media pull. When you combine the popularity factor with the almost unbelievable ability of social media to promote a cause and spread the word quickly, you soon discover the mediums surprising potential to raise an enormous amount of support in an incredibly short time.
"Forget for today what you hear from political pundits on television. They are brilliant at predicting what happened yesterday and usually wrong about predicting what will happen tomorrow because they are trapped in a Stockholm syndrome of insiders talking to insiders about inside baseball that usually misses the core importance of political events."
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September 8 moneybomb to celebrate Bernie's birthday (Original Post)
emsimon33
Aug 2015
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Catherina
(35,568 posts)1. "brilliant at predicting what happened yesterday" K&R
"Forget for today what you hear from political pundits on television. They are brilliant at predicting what happened yesterday and usually wrong about predicting what will happen tomorrow because they are trapped in a Stockholm syndrome of insiders talking to insiders about inside baseball..."
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)2. Oh, lovelies like Chuck Toady!
Hehe.
And the Stockholm Syndrome reference...
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)3. I'm in for $8 on September 8th!
merrily
(45,251 posts)4. The third paragraph you quoted in your OP is some good writing.
Forget for today what you hear from political pundits on television. They are brilliant at predicting what happened yesterday and usually wrong about predicting what will happen tomorrow because they are trapped in a Stockholm syndrome of insiders talking to insiders about inside baseball that usually misses the core importance of political events.
To be honest, though, I don't even thing political pundits are great at predicting what happened yesterday. They are great at spinning what happened yesterday until it becomes "conventional political wisdom" that is pure bs. And the ones who are suffering Stockhollm syndrome are average Americans, not the pundits.
leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)5. Wow, thank you for the link!
That really was a good article!