My Resignation from the Intercept
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My Resignation from the Intercept
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#2Greenwald co-founded it; how did it get out of his control and lead to this situation?
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#3Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path.
Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.
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#4Media mastheads seem to have shorter and short shelf lives before they are consumed by editorial censorship and commercial issues.
Right now Taibbi on substack is terrific, his Rolling Stone articles a lot more constrained. I look forward to Greenwald being less restricted and to his Biden commentary and thoughts
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#5We are witnessing the biggest concerted censorship effort in the history of the USA.
One for the history books, depending on who gets to write it in the future.
Regardless of whether or not you believe on Tony Bubolinsky, you should at the very least have the opportunity to hear him and make up your own mind.
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#6The media has fallen into the well-known trap of optimizing the wrong KPI. You want to maximize trust with the public, not engagement, if you want your media company to survive if its value proposition is providing journalism and the usual benefits that come with a free press.
Unfortunately, not only is engagement the wrong metric, but it's also one which incentivizes the undermining of the actual metric you need to be optimizing. This results in a negative feedback loop, and the logical outcome is that all media companies who focus on the engagement KPI will, in the limit, become tabloids - pure entertainment, no trust. Since most outlets were already on their way to becoming politics-focused, what we're going to get are "tabloids for politics" - and that is what we see. It's just a matter of when the public accepts this transition has occurred, not if it is happening.
Getting the public to accept this has proven challenging - despite the fact that many clearly see the "opposite side" media as tabloid-like, it's been hard for the same people to accept that their own chosen media sources, who tell them things they agree with, are no different in this regard. The resistance of course is due to all the usual human biases, but it's still strange when people can see it so obviously in the media they disagree with and not apply Occam's Razor to their own.
This does mean that there's a huge opportunity if you assume trust is something people will pay for. Substack seems to provide early evidence that this is the case. Fortunately, I think the market will correct this error - and it's critical it does, because a free press is essential to ensuring our society continues without increasing oppression or war.
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#7Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path. Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.
Exerpt:
> refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#8Greenwald co-founded it; how did it get out of his control and lead to this situation?
It reminds me of what happened with Steve Wozniak.
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#9Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path. Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.
Setting boundaries on what one will and wont do isn't victimhood. He doesn't owe the world his output under any terms but his own.
Re: My Resignation from the Intercept
#10Greenwald has really fascinated me the past decade. He was on track to being one of the most prolific reporters on the planet, and he has gone really down this weird victimhood "censorship" path. Sometimes it’s legitimate censorship. Other times, your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.
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