“The Times so dominates the news business that it has absorbed many of the people who once threatened it: The former top editors of Gawker, Recode, and Quartz a

“The Times so dominates the news business that it has absorbed many of the people who once threatened it: The former top editors of Gawker, Recode, and Quartz are all at The Times, as are many of the reporters who first made Politico a must-read in Washington.” It’s the double-edge sword of our new world. As our world is moving faster than laws, there’s this tangential excuse that all these companies use as competitors for why their once markets, are completely evaporating. Sure Ben’s argument isn’t the greatest (listicles had to happen to pay for the News division). I’m just disheartening that for the time being it just seems the nature of the game. The room is either niche or a oversized conglomerate of algorithm-based decision making...and not always the good kind.