How the Media Affects Us as a Society

David Swig: I'm trying to create this sort of historical document. This thing that's going to actually describe maybe in a decade from now, someone will look back and be like, oh, okay, that's what was going on. He says his thread on Twitter had more than 60 million views; it was completely ignored by any mainstream news outlet. "I think there's this larger story about how the media affects us as a society," he says.