That's a sentiment about my Eminem story that I've seen repeated in article comments and on social media.
It's wrong, of course. Case in point, Slime Shady makes inane claims and they get MILLIONS of views and supportive worldwide press. I make a detailed and documented rebuttal and despite many thousands of AmmoLand and WarOnGuns regulars, Facebook "friends" and Twitter "followers," so far, the piece has only garnered a modest handful of "shares."
There is no other publicity. None. Guess what the public is exposed to. Now guess why so many other efforts to disseminate the right information have gone nowhere.
I could just chalk it up to my writing sucks, but it's not limited to me and that doesn't explain why so many continue to return here every day. Surely there are more productive uses of their time.
We have the tools but only a handful ever picks them up and uses them. We have the potential to do so much more to reach outside the echo chamber (where even there this barely made a dent), but only a minuscule handful ever bother.
You are absolutely right. Don't pay attention to people who tell you what to write about. How many of them have even done a fraction of the good you and mike did with fast and furious?
ReplyDeleteIt is tough for a true outsider fighting the ruling class and its media to ever break through and reach people, so whatever topics and tactics you wish to use are to be commended. Fast and furious literally helped stop gun control in its tracks for years! It is tough to do much better than that from the outside - heck, it is tough to even come close to accomplishing that!
Sincerely,
A fan of yours and Mike's from at least 2011 or so.
I can’t see any mechanism by which you would be counting who does and doesn’t share your articles other than the Tweet button on the page. Your audience is American gundamentalists — next to cloistered nuns, probably the most Twitter-free demographic on the planet. Besides, look what invariably happens to conservative voices who start to win Twitter. Keep your chin up, your stuff is being shared and getting out there in other ways.
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