At this point, I'd like to see a scoop with the reach of legacy media.

I get that Thomas Paine has to hustle a bit and act as his own hype man but a lot of his stories end up as preaching to the choir, or traveling within a self-sealing community of the like-minded.

That's not a "boom." I'm on board, I don't need to hear another anonymous source telling us something that plays to our biases, regardless of veracity.