Un single “retweet” sent tremors through one of America’s most revered institutions. On June 2, Cam Harless, an obscure comedian from Florida, tells his Twitter followers a “old joke” a friend had just told him: “All the girls are bi. The whole thing is to know if it is polar or sexual. »“ROFL” (“Rolling on the floor laughing” – I’m rolling on the floor laughing), hastens to answer @pagestop, one of his followers. The joke is a hit with the small network. It would have stopped there if Dave Weigel, reporter for the Washington Post, hadn’t relayed it to his account. The beginning of trouble for him and for his newspaper. Nothing less than the “triggering of a new civil war within the major left-wing media”, according to Harless, invited by the channel…
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