The story of The Great One. Yes, alcohol was involved.
"The Honeymooners is still just about a group of working class people, living in the city, and trying to make a better life for themselves. These themes are just as relevant today as they were in the 1950’s" thehoneymoonersanewlook.wordpress.com
"Networks developed prime-time shows that would appeal to a general family audience. Chief among these types of shows was the domestic comedy—a generic family comedy that was identified by its character-based humor and usually set within the home." opentext.wsu.edu/com101/chapter…
"Entertainment-education (EE) is “purposely designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate in order to increase knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes, shift social norms and change overt behavior” link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
2019: "A wave of new social science research shows that the quality of shows can influence us in important ways, shaping our thinking and political preferences, even affecting our cognitive ability." nytimes.com/2019/07/25/ups…
2013: Twitter and hashtags were considered an accelerant for television. Liking or disliking something could be influenced even if the core content couldn't. adweek.com/performance-ma…
Even Twitter brags..."we own television". But Twitter needs expensive TV content to spark the free conversation. Twitter also "owns" other topics. Like politics. marketing.twitter.com/en/insights/8-…
Twitter doesn't see the irony in Musk's political affiliations and his need to promote a political agenda. Watch out for those state propagandists. Like the ones that can twist other media people don't read or watch to their own personal benefit. help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…
2016: 59% of Twitter users are simply virtue signaling by just passing on headlines but never actually reading or debating the article. We are stupid smart. And we deserve stupid shibboleths that sound smart to stupid people if we don't read or watch. digitaltrends.com/social-media/t…
It's actually hard to get Twitter users to read or watch anything that occupies more than 8 - 30 seconds. Just ask Twitter. Thankfully Twitter will sell you the tools to distort your opinions and products. Good for fuckerists bad for regular folks. help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt…
2020 Pre Elon, Twitter's one salvation was that it was real. Something bad people and crooked conniver's really don't' like. "Honest, sustained social media momentum behind candidates does seem to translate into something" nytimes.com/2020/02/19/opi…
and here we have the moment of clarity from Charlie Warzel as to why Twitter should not be owned by one person: "One way to read my “Twitter is real life” argument is that elites’ opinions aren’t in step with America, but it doesn’t matter because they’re more influential" Boom.
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