> It is best to ignore journalism completely Quality journalism still exists and is invaluable, but is done as long form articles in select publications by peo

> It is best to ignore journalism completely Quality journalism still exists and is invaluable, but is done as long form articles in select publications by people established enough to do it. A snippet of conversation from the All In podcast: > Jason C.: Having been a journalist...if you look at trust among republicans.. all time low in the press. And just all americans don't trust the press right now, they think there are hidden agendas... > What happened was, the internet caused the revenue streams of the press to get violently compressed or eliminated. You had craigslist take the classified business google and facebook took the ad business in subscriptions netflix spotify et cetera... so you have all that revenue gone. > They didn't have the resources to do fact checking and then ... because of blogging which i was involved in required that people file two three four times a day just to keep up... and so when you're filing even just twice a day there is no time to get quotes from the subjects. So we have all as people who are subjects had quotes attributed to us that were like: "where did you pull that quote from?" like oh "three years ago you said this" or whatever. > And you don't even know you're going to be in the story. Like the hit piece they did on you, Chamath. Some sports writer [from] sf gate did some hit piece on Chamath. Did they ever call you did they ever say "would you like to respond?". That's how it used to work... when you get a degree in journalism. > David Sacks: You said something really really important it's the craziest thing where these guys will not even call you and say "here's what we're running" or "here's what we're going to say do you want to work through this with us? Do you want to tell us are there any inaccuracies? We're really seeking the truth." Nobody's really seeking the truth they're seeking clicks ... and so here's what happens: your salary is now determined by your number of followers on twitter.