On: Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)

[mcphage]

> a much more high-information look into US politics than anything that could be considered mainstream in the early 2000s

I think, given Joe Rogan's popularity these days, he is the mainstream.

[telotortium → mcphage]

No, Joe Rogan (and most alt media) responds to the NYT, while the NYT doesn't respond to Joe Rogan except to smear him. That is the test of whether a media source is mainstream, or at least respectable - does the NYT cite it seriously or ignore it except to denigrate it?

[mcphage → telotortium]

> That is the test of whether a media source is mainstream

It is? Who says?

> or at least respectable

Well, that's a different matter entirely.