The attention inequality economy

Heh. Slate had the poor taste to commission a hit piece on Bush 41's service dog, Sully. Typical of a clickbait-driven, low-rent mainstream media piece and a shame. DailyCaller has some background on the storm-in-a-teacup.

But the American people have a bigger heart than the mainstream media, and they have spoken. Apparently, the loyalty of a service dog to Bush 41 is of greater appeal than is Slate. A lot greater.

Lolol damn, Sully has over 100k more followers on Instagram than Slate. #LifelongCompanion 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/GoUZpzIoAs

— Raheel Ramzanali, ESPN 97.5 FM Houston (@The_Raheel) December 4, 2018

If you want to keep count, Sully's followers at Sully H.W. Bush now stand at 192,000 followers.

Slate followers at Slate now stand at 32,600 followers.

I can't find a public Instagram account for Ruth Graham but she does have one at Twitter. Her count is 13,800 followers.

It is all rather meaningless, but kind of fascinating that a service dog doing his duty garners more than ten times as much attention as does the journalist in a mainstream media platform who writes a snide take-down of that service.

If I were Ms. Graham, and if indeed in the internet era we are now in an Attention Economy, I might be more than a little concerned. Sully has an attention valuation nearly fourteen times greater than Graham. It might be the new frontier for social justice jacobins - the attention inequality economy.