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This is a dying legacy news company trying to shit on what is and will be the future of long form real journalism - plain and simple. Ironically, platforms lik
by d33lio 6y ago
This is a dying legacy news company trying to shit on what is and will be the future of long form real journalism - plain and simple.
Ironically, platforms like SubStack strike a fantastic balance. They're generally populated by journalists who can actually write or have huge notoriety (Glenn Greenwald and the like) who are writing substantive news and not JS tutorials. I think "freedom of speech" in time will be promulgated as metered and well thought out arguments that don't seek to slander or directly attack any singular person. This is how real adults talk, not how activists talk.
To be fair, Medium is shit. It's already started to become susceptible to similar "creator negatives" that have emerged on YouTube in the last 5 years (Casey Neistat personified this trend). People now just write clickbait / click-driven sharticles that sell ads. Granted, it's still better than what the NYT generally publishes.
Moreover - the boomer concept of physical newspaper delivery is equivalent to how millennials perceive well structured html / css emails that contain "news" or "journalism". It's a place I expect to see longer-ish form content and it's not in an app or platform that wants me to look at ads, boobs or something else they want to glue my eyeballs to.
- kordlessagain 6y ago> This is a dying legacy news company trying to shit Nice story, bro. Typical negative sentiment backed by biased arguments revolving around a silly belief that technology will continue to destroy all those boomer things and improve what will be for those who embrace it willingly. Meanwhile, Facebook is rewiring the way you think. Don't like my story? Then read this: > The UK company continues to be the best forming international subsidiary, generating an estimated £10-15m of profit (before transfer charges) at margins not seen anywhere else in Condé Nast. That was on nearly $1.5B in revenue. "Dying", ha ha.
- d33lio 6y agoHi Anna Wiener or internet person? > Typical negative sentiment backed by biased arguments Yet ironically, most of your work at The NewYorker has been writing articles shitting on SF and a silly belief that technology will continue to destroy all those CA things. If you hate tech so much maybe you should stop covering Silicon Valley and "innovation" or you know... leave SF? Or idk, write another book about it? Obviously startups didnt exactly work out for you? You know you've done something right when you trigger a journalist who can't defend or argue their work with a real argument ;) ~ To be frank, you're almost as endearing as the Lambda School guy who replies to every single comment in HN threads critical of lambda school.
- urbanappalachia 6y agoPretty sure that isn't Anna Wiener
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- Pils 6y ago> You know you've done something right when you trigger a journalist who can't defend or argue their work with a real argument ;) Do you think you are actually responding to Anna Weiner?
- d33lio 6y agoDo you think you're actually being witty?
- dang 6y agoThis kind of flamewar post is not welcome on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Edit: we've already had to ask you about this once before.
- dang 6y agoWould you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? It takes threads in a lousy direction and evokes worse from others. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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