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Flash Walken · 08-14-2017, 03:30 PM

Let's play the reversy game:

Director of, oh I don't know, leftist publication du jour, salon, slate, rabble, whatever. Let's call him Steve. So, Steve is the opinion maker at the David Suzuki Foundation, and then he becomes the editorial director of rabble. Steve then champions a radical candidate for the NDP, a candidate that the majority of NDP elected officials think is too extreme to be a member of their party, let alone their designated candidate. With a spirited media campaign, Steve manages to not only get this radical NDP guy elected candidate, he actually gets this person elected PRIME MINISTER. He resigns his job with rabble or slate or vice or whoever and moves onto being the chief political strategist for the new Prime Minister. The country immediately starts seeing a rise in environmental and leftist violence and vandalism. The leadership of the Sierra Club, the Suzuki Foundation The Weather Underground, Front de liberation du Quebec, all publicly acknowledge how much this person as PM benefits them and how much they like him and how glad they are they voted for him.

The CBC nightly devotes almost their entire broadcast to brazen and bizarre pro-environmental, anti-capitalist legislation. As canadians we are inundated with news about about how the Prime Minister thinks hydro meters cause cancer and enacts a wall along the border to keep US businessmen out. They live-broadcast his post election rallies where he talks about the rough ride capitalists would've gotten in the good old days.

Readership of slate/vice/rabble declines considerably after his departure.

Is that guy and his opinion mainstream?

Doesn't receiving 45% or more of the popular vote of a nation make someone mainstream? Readership is fickle. The Times and The Post were on deaths door having year over year declines in readership. Did they suddenly become outside of the mainstream? The post lost something like 40% of their circulation between 2009 and 2015. Did they fall out of favour with the 'mainstream'?

Or do you no longer care at all about readership because the entire aapparatus of the federal government is now bent to your will and ideals?

Do you even need a website anymore when every major mediate outlet is covering your every move? Does it matter if rabble's readership has declined if the guy who used to publish their blogs is now having things published under the official government of canada letterhead?

08-14-2017, 03:30 PM	#400
Flash Walken Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The Void between Darkness and Light Exp:	Let's play the reversy game: Director of, oh I don't know, leftist publication du jour, salon, slate, rabble, whatever. Let's call him Steve. So, Steve is the opinion maker at the David Suzuki Foundation, and then he becomes the editorial director of rabble. Steve then champions a radical candidate for the NDP, a candidate that the majority of NDP elected officials think is too extreme to be a member of their party, let alone their designated candidate. With a spirited media campaign, Steve manages to not only get this radical NDP guy elected candidate, he actually gets this person elected PRIME MINISTER. He resigns his job with rabble or slate or vice or whoever and moves onto being the chief political strategist for the new Prime Minister. The country immediately starts seeing a rise in environmental and leftist violence and vandalism. The leadership of the Sierra Club, the Suzuki Foundation The Weather Underground, Front de liberation du Quebec, all publicly acknowledge how much this person as PM benefits them and how much they like him and how glad they are they voted for him. The CBC nightly devotes almost their entire broadcast to brazen and bizarre pro-environmental, anti-capitalist legislation. As canadians we are inundated with news about about how the Prime Minister thinks hydro meters cause cancer and enacts a wall along the border to keep US businessmen out. They live-broadcast his post election rallies where he talks about the rough ride capitalists would've gotten in the good old days. Readership of slate/vice/rabble declines considerably after his departure. Is that guy and his opinion mainstream? Doesn't receiving 45% or more of the popular vote of a nation make someone mainstream? Readership is fickle. The Times and The Post were on deaths door having year over year declines in readership. Did they suddenly become outside of the mainstream? The post lost something like 40% of their circulation between 2009 and 2015. Did they fall out of favour with the 'mainstream'? Or do you no longer care at all about readership because the entire aapparatus of the federal government is now bent to your will and ideals? Do you even need a website anymore when every major mediate outlet is covering your every move? Does it matter if rabble's readership has declined if the guy who used to publish their blogs is now having things published under the official government of canada letterhead? Last edited by Flash Walken; 08-14-2017 at 03:32 PM.