I’m hesitant to weigh in at all on heated topics such as this, but I think the reaction raises a broader question than the specific incident. I watched the reaction online to The Onion‘s post-Oscar tweet and was struck by something ironic: people who’s stated goal was for The Onion to delete their tweet took [...]

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Yesterday, Colin Delany, a fellow online politico who runs epolitics.com, posted an article entitled “This Election’s Not Going To Be Won in Hashtags.” The main thrust of the article can be summed up with this line: But let’s have a sense of proportion: a hashtag here and there is trivial compared with the grand sweep [...]

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