Journalism After The Death of Hyperlinks. “The fundamental media problem of the A.I.-driven future isn’t intellectual property; the fundamental media problem of the A.I.-driven future is work.”
Understanding Lina Khan and the Millennial Class War. “Whenever you encounter somebody saying something like ‘when you attack Amazon, you’re attacking America,’ you have grabbed onto one of the broken power lines of U.S. politics that just might kill you unless you’re wearing rubber gloves.”
“Moneyball” and the Limits of Journalism’s Analytics Revolution. “It’s entirely possible that the economic conditions supporting a free press collapse before we can reach some sort of intellectual settlement on what kind of journalism is most necessary to support the best kind of democracy.”
Are TikTok and Instagram Dulling Your Taste? “The digital is the real. Recommendation algorithms, the companies that control them and the crowds that use them have already re-created the world.”
The journalism trust problem that a nonprofit newsroom can’t fix. “A nonprofit tax status doesn’t mean your newsroom escaped the shattered labor market that Wall Street created for you.”
Sorry, TikTok. There’s No Such Thing as a Social Media Giant America Should Love. “Any TikTok-using adult who has survived the last two decades of American life has lived in a world where our relationships with knowledge, culture and politics have been decreasingly mediated by the boring, out of touch, corrupt, gate-keeping mainstream institutions like newspapers, churches, unions, clubs and political parties that used to rationally order, organize and channel the public’s wandering spirits.”
Fox News and the Prison of Profit. “Fox News was less afraid of Murdoch or of Trump than its own audience and what might happen if the masses stopped watching. The real boss was the ratings, the true master the quarterly earnings.”
Matt Pearce 