Hello.
The reason that i signed up for this site is to communicate with others with the intention of advancing ideas while keeping both the drones and the choir at bay. For example, I hear what sounds like an airplane outside my office window; it could be an airplane, or it could be a drone. It's gone now. Forget it. Likewise, I asked a preacher one time if he ever Really felt like he was "preaching to the choir". It was an odd, but interesting moment, as we looked at each other, maybe thinking about how "Litmus test liberals" and "Fundamentalist reactionaries" are pretty much the same.
At least that's what I was thinking about at the time. The thing that I didn't like about listening to them was that it wasn't original music, and much too didactic.
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So how's this for a contrarian question for a start:
Who, or What, Defines the "News Cycle"?