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March 02, 2018
Why Did It Take Two Weeks for the Media to Report on the Parkland Students' Astroturfing?I wrote a bit about David Hines' thoughts on this Wednesday -- he had written a bit on Twitter. The Federalist knew a story when they saw one, so they commissioned him to write a real piece. "Can you believe these kids?" It’s been a recurring theme of the coverage of the Parkland school shooting: the remarkable effectiveness of the high school students who created a gun control organization in the wake of the massacre. In seemingly no time, the magical kids had organized events ranging from a national march to a mass school walkout, and they'd brought in a million dollars in donations from Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney. The rest of the piece details the hard work and many man-hours required to organize this sort of "spontaneous, organic" uprising by Magical Kids. A lot of phone calls, a lot of combing through online petitions to find contact information for people who can be asked to show up at a rally, etc. The media, of course, knew all this. They knew that when they called up these Magical Kids for TV shots, they were actually talking with the Magical Kids' not-so-magical Hollywood publicity agents. And they surely knew their Democrat pals like Debbie Wasserman Schultz were helping the Magical Kids cast some spells. But they hid this, because they wanted the Magical Kids storyline. That's only part of Hines' point, though -- he also wants the right to know that this is how organizing is done, and if this appears to be "magical" to people on the right, it's because we're not doing it ourselves to see the "magic" is in fact just professional organization. We need to get better at this. | Recent Comments
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