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Calling an independent magazine "the media" is just lazy criticism. You can be of a different opinion, but that‘s not an argument.

Ironic, considering Kant also wrote in his reflections > "Es ist unmöglich, dass ein Mensch ohne Religion seines Lebens froh werde." > "It‘s impossible for a human to enjoy his lif…

News media does not operate at the scale of Netflix or Spotify, etc. Spotify has about 87 million paying users, Netflix around 150 million. The New York Times has around 4 million.…

> What I think you're seeing is that people are paying the amount they're willing to pay. When your choices are $40/mo or $0/mo for the WSJ and you average an article or two from t…

Good for you. And the answer should be, as with everything else: the amount everybody is willing to pay. I understand your criticism, but what we‘re seeing is the fall out of the d…

Those pesky journalists, wanting to get payed! Not something you wrote, but HNs relationship to journalism is weird. On the one hand there‘s an infinite stream of complains about c…

Foreign countries undermining the manipulating democracy is "just another way form of political campaigning". That‘s a really really cynical way of framing the problem.

Maybe, just maybe because both did things that are worth scrutinizing and reporting on? Which kind of is the job of journalists?

If newspapers were only interested in clicks, no one would write such a story. No journalist would spend 6 months of their time researching such a story. Would you please stop with…

Well here we go. That‘s not even remotely true. And even if they did, what you somehow think the did, why didn't Tesla sue for libel? You know that there‘s a huge legal risk for Re…

There‘s a huge difference between getting something wrong in an article and "fake news". Could we please at least try to have nuanced discussions around this topic or news in gener…

As someone working in the media business. Please could you at least google the outlet you‘re talking about? You‘re embarrassing yourself with your own ignorance. Reveal is a non-pr…

I will never understand the reflex of decrying news as "FUD" or outlets as "MSM", if journalists don‘t write what you want to hear.