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sometimes I read something and I have no idea whether it’s true or not but it feels politically motivated but it’s being obfuscated by supposed “obvious truths” that the masses have not been seeing
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like what do any of us actually about knows the history of newsrooms
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Marc knows a lot about this actually Here's a blog post that Katherine is likely paraphrasing https://a16z.com/the-future-of-the-news-business-a-monumental-twitter-stream-all-in-one-place/
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This is from 2014 btw - helpful to level set on the timing before reading it It's pretty prescient IMO
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Could be wrong but I don’t see it mentioning editorial / opinion much? I think there’s a combination of opinions that feels illogical to me: - owner of paper setting editorial direction is good - 25 year olds (likely approved of by owner) having editorial say is bad? - also from last fall: the owner deciding to not endorse (after endorsing for years) a candidate is a good thing I feel like even in 2020 the NYT opinion section was arguably more open minded to dissenting opinions than it seems Bezos is heading
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You're right that the pmarca piece isn't entirely about editorial, and it's mostly about news business models. What I was trying to point out is that subjective journalism *was* the dominant model pre-WWII, as Katherine was suggesting, and *it did* change to objective journalism in the mid-20th century - but not because young people took over news orgs; I agree it's much more nuanced than her tweet implies (see screenshot) I tend to resonate with pmarca's take that "presenting an event or an issue with a point of view can have even more impact, and reach an audience otherwise left out of the conversation." Because there is *much* higher volume of news these days, more publications need to niche down to attract the right audience → so by being more opinionated (less "objective"), WaPo becomes increasingly niche, which may retain customers more effectively
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Ah yeah that’s interesting actually, wasn’t familiar with that!
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