The number nerds over at Five Thirty-Eight have an interesting breakdown of how many Twitter users actually read Donald Trump’s tweets on Twitter. Though he has 52 million followers, the number of actual Trump tweet readers is likely less than 10 million, or less than 16 percent of the 63 million Americans who voted for him. Check out the weekly “Pollapalooza.”
So as president he’s going to demand that the Department of Justice investigate whether the last president demanded that the Department of Justice investigate something?
We live in an era where the very foundations of journalism are increasingly under attack, where “fake news” is ascendent and the intellect and attention span of the public is on the decline.
In response, the editors of Pensito Review, in consultation with researchers at the Moscow Center for Media Studies, have crafted this 20-question quiz to help journalists clarify their mission and find their place in the cosmos during the current Trump administration.
1. Are you feeling depressed, demoralized, disgusted, disenfranchised or simply dissed by the state of the news media and its public perception today? (select one)
Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.
