Twitter rapid response?
We need to make sure the media is going to be fair this time around. And they won't do it on their own, because 45* is apparently somehow good for ratings.
I've been toying with the idea of creating some kind of a twitter rapid response. You know how the Russians have thousands of bots that jump into action whenever they want to overwhelm rational conversation on Twitter? I don't want to do that, but I do think it would be a good idea to have a way to reach thousands of twitter users very quickly, for example, during debates or when the media is covering a Trump rally (thus giving him millions in free publicity). The idea would be that when CNN, for example, has a panel of only Trump supporters, or shows a rally that is clearly just a rally and not actual NEWS, the group would be contacted and alerted to send out hundreds or thousands of properly hashtagged tweets (in this case hashtag would be #CNN or #CNNnews or #AndersonCooper or something like that). If it was done quickly, simultaneous to the broadcast, it could get the attention of the muckymucks at the network and possibly keep them a bit more honest.
This is just a first thought. But we really do have the power if we have the numbers, and we really could force the networks to cover the 2020 campaign cycle a bit more honestly.
This post is meant to be an opening statement in what I hope will be a discussion about actions we can take. I hope I won't be criticized into silence, but that's a risk I'm taking.