One-Way Street: #DearCongress

October 03, 2013

#DearCongress

The Today Show is tracking the Twitter hashtag gathering tweets about the government shutdown

#DearCongress, ‘I am embarrassed to be an American’: Nation sounds off on shutdown

One difference between 1995 and now that I haven't heard anyone mention yet is the presence of social media in political discourse. Some experts have mentioned seven days as the period in which public outcry against a government shutdown starts to build. Social media could shorten that period and, possibly, send the debate lurching into unexpected directions.

Oct 3, 2013 9:27:42 AM | Current Affairs, The Public Sphere

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