Exploring the Phillies Fascist Approach to Media

Pressbox or Panopticon? - Allan Henry-USA TODAY SportsLast night, I was struck by how two seemingly unconnected tweets spoke to each other. I'll present those two tweets without any framing so you might approach them without the influence of my opinion and will offer my reading after.

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— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) April 26, 2015 What these tweets provide, primarily, is insight into how two teams, both of whom will likely be terrible at baseball in 2015, conceptualize the media and their relationship to it. On first glance, this juxtaposition lends itself…