I'm shocked that people here watched the memorial service.

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19. The motivations of those watching are not in question. The effects of the action are.

We complain that the right-wing controls the media. The right-wing controls the media because the right-wing makes money for the media owners. They make money for the media owners because, as with something like this, there are as many of us hate watching as there are of them seriously watching.

How many of them read or watched ANYTHING about Melissa Hortman? I'm going to guess not a lot. And that helped it fall off the front page within days, if not hours.

There is no need to watch these right-wing media manipulations. There will be plenty of ink and video given to them after the fact. We can get as much information as we need about them without giving ratings to the programs themselves.

When we give them ratings, we encourage the media owners to make more of them.