The Only Thing Worse Than Corporate Media Might Be Populist Media

This revolution sucks

I’m looking into ways of expanding I Might Be Wrong. It will definitely include a podcast (soon!), and I’m trying to figure out what else people like. For example: I write about soccer — should I add another sport that’s unpopular in my country? Jai alai, maybe, or caber toss? Or what about formats? I Might Be Wrong is currently a newsletter, but what if it was — stick with me here — a yogurt? Or a mutual fund? Or one of those suitcases that you ride through the airport? I’m spitballing.

If I Might Be Wrong was a series of instructional karate tapes, would you pay $6 a month for that?

One thing I’ve considered is a YouTube show. Apparently, The Kids watch political shows on the You Tubes. I didn’t know this, which isn’t surprising since I’ve missed every youth trend since Gangnam Style, which I found out about a month ago. But political YouTube shows are a major thing; they’re part of the realignment of news media that includes podcasts, social media, and even the newsletter (and possibly chewing tobacco?) that you’re reading right now.

I checked out some popular political YouTube shows to see what they’re all about. Let me phrase this as diplomatically as I can: If you filled the Great Lakes with diarrhea and lighter fluid, set the whole thing ablaze, and catapulted yourself into the middle of that fiery shit-fest, you would probably have a more pleasant experience than you would have watching a typical political YouTube show. Most of them aren’t just “makes me cry for humanity” bad — they’re “makes me think ‘fuck humanity, they deserve what they get’” bad.¹