Who benefits from Change

The Watergate building gave its name to the investigation and reporting of the 1972 break in to the DNC. It has entered the language a descriptive suffix of every investigation for the last fifty years.

The second expression in English from “Watergate” is “follow the money”. That is, who benefits from some radical shift in the social contract. The pandemic which occupies the news. It applies here.

Before the March 8 announcement of the Coved-19 pandemic, the cable news outlets had lost their audience. Cable entertainment was searching for an audience. ZOOM, Meet, and Jitsi were scarcely known.

Currently, their stocks are out of reach. Makers of masks are doing well.