Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "How the internet changes the impeachment debate" video.

  1. ***MEDIA FAIL*** -- Sorry, Brian Stelter, it has far more to do with certain people in today's American culture than any information technology advances. It's about Republican willful ignorance, not the internet or cell phones. Those advances make it easier for some to obtain misinformation, but they also ultimately make holding a position of falsehood much more untenable and difficult. If anything, willful ignorance was EASIER before the internet and cell phones. Actually thought this was a very intelligent segment otherwise, Brian; a credit to you, CNN, and Bernstein. There is a needed discussion to be had about how IT advances are effecting our culture, communities, society, families, relationships, politics, etc., but this wasn't it. In itself, it isn't responsible for the any changes to the impeachment debate we're having; it's merely a tool being exploited and abused by one side--and if it wasn't that tool, they'd find another to substitute, anyway. Your argument ignores all the good IT advances have done to make us a better educated, more well-informed society that now obtains much of its information in real time, instead of days, week, months, or years later--which benefits society greatly in many ways. So, there are two sides to the same coin: it's currently benefiting many Americans in learning the perfidiousness of this President and about the serious Constitutional and national security concerns necessitating his removal from Office. You also critically fail to account for traditional broadcast and print media outlets on the right, which are THE major source of disinformation in this nation, not Facebook or Twitter.
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