No, I don’t consider discussion boards to be social media. I was commenting on how the bias for seeking traffic on sites like twitter creates a feedback loop favoring increasing levels of hysteria.
(Basically I was agreeing with you, and amplifying.)
Mystery solved, Twitter is great for news because that’s where the reporters are, and message boards are most definitely social media:
Golfing? That’s all?
The Qult will be soooo disappointed! How ever will they recover?
You underestimate the complexity and subtlety of his plan.
Reporters not bound by the same standards as their employing organizations.
The last 13 hours have been absolutely ridiculous, and look at how much misinformation is in the OP.
Trump just arrived in DC unannounced
Trump is no longer president and his movements are therefore not publicly broadcast. I’m guessing everyone who needed to know that Trump was traveling to VA to golf knew about it.
in a government jet
fake news
looking like he was just dragged off the golf course
this one is an opinion I guess, but the implication that this trip was unplanned, rushed, and impromptu is clearly false.
some people claim he’s been arrested
“people are saying…”
The SDMB is better than this, or at least it should be.
I mean, I studied the available public info and concluded he was most plausibly golfing. I’m part of the SDMB. So we got it right =)
I feel like my heart just threw up
“Stand down from General Quarters”
Damn!
To be fair, Trump always kind of looks like that.
I would have said he always looks disheveled, too.
I looked at Twitter last night. It was full of lies (arrested, CNN reports, dragged from golf course, rushed to Walter Reed, indicted, handcuffed; going to take back the presidency, going to the Queen’s funeral, going to confront Biden, going to advise Biden; etc.). Hardly worth the reading time.
I believe that I’ve commented that the addictive desire for new and fresher news - that you can get from Twitter, micro-bloggers, and gossip rags - is just the entryway to following sites that are the journalistic equivalent to Breitbart and the Epoch Times.
Good news requires time and the editorial process. You just have to wait.
An eternal truth if ever there was one.
Unless that’s one of his body doubles.
And I believed you, so I also take credit for being right!
He may have gone to a golf course, but it wasn’t for a quick game…
The Great Escape II.
In other news, apparently Trump can drive a golf cart all by himself. I’m somewhat surprised.
It’s special for him. Extra fast, so he can go zipzipzip.
You think all them fellas had to hand over their phones? Agree to be searched? No way trump is stupid enough to trust everyone, right? lol
I sure would like to hear that conversation.