> the Google/Facebook ad cartel is rapidly destroying publishing business models that have been essential to civilized human dicourse and > every reporter I’v

> the Google/Facebook ad cartel is rapidly destroying publishing business models that have been essential to civilized human dicourse and > every reporter I’ve talked to has tried to get me to say awful things about Amazon and in particular about Jeff Bezos. But at my last job they taught me to think big and, with all his billions, Jeff is rounding error in the big picture. This sounds like the media business needs a reboot and that we only ascribe such a high value to it because we didn't get a look into the sausage factory before. We belived the nice stories the journalists told about themselves. Today we can read what Tim Bray thinks about his interaction with journalists. Before the internet he would never had been able to communicate this to people in the rest of the world.