When a single author repeatedly curates and republishes a sequence of posts about a local scandal, that archive functions as a persistent amplifier that cements one interpretive frame and supplies repeatable source links for activists, journalists, and politicians. Over years such personal archives can keep an issue on the public agenda even after mainstream outlets move on.
— This matters because decentralized curation by repeat commentators is a durable mechanism for sustaining and spreading particular narratives about crime, institutional failure, or migration—shaping media agendas and political pressure long after a formal report is published.
2026.01.04
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Steve Sailer’s Rotherham post is explicitly an index of his decade‑long coverage of the Rotherham statutory‑rape reports and related local inquiries—an example of a single commentator institutionalizing a scandal narrative.
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