The Revolution will still not be televised.

April 2, 2025.

Introduction.

Back in the day, 1970, to be precise, a gent named Gil Scott Heron,

released a spoken word piece with a title that I referenced above.

The Revolution will not be

televised. The phrase caught on and spread and came to mean that the establishment media is

kind of dutty when you think about it and is really not able to capture the raw energy of the

street. The street is where the action is. Now, whatever Scott Heron's particular intentions

and applications were, I think there's a universal

principle here that we should pay some attention to. The phrase sounds like something Bill Ayers would say,

but just as Saul Olinsky articulated certain principles for his commie activists that are just

as applicable for conservatives to use, so also here. There's room for some repurposing here.

But since 1970, things have changed,

have they not? The media has exploded into hundreds of functional pieces and is a lot faster

than it used to be. And this might lead some to believe that. Well, actually, the revolution

will be televised. There used to be the big lumbering newspapers, the Post and the Times. and there used to be three big networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC.

That is where you would go for your evening news, and then Walter Cronkite would tell you that's the way it is.

But today, I would not be a bit surprised if our new coffee maker had a built-in news feed on the side of it.

This media explosion has created an expectation that there will always

be footage. If anything remarkable happens, anywhere in the world, we all quickly turn to our devices

with anticipation that we will be able to see it all unfold. So surely we think something as

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