Deliver me from thin-skinned billionaires trying to bankroll their own sycophant "news media". Just because the NYT (which does not represent "legacy media" any

Deliver me from thin-skinned billionaires trying to bankroll their own sycophant "news media". Just because the NYT (which does not represent "legacy media" any more than a16z represents the tech industry) had a few editors and reporters with illusions of grandeur, doesn't lend any more credibility to the money bags people. I have had a target painted on my back before by someone with lots of money because they couldn't take a piece of criticism that I had for their company. Do you know how that feels? Normalizing retaliatory behavior by rich people (and yes, this outfit was part and parcel of a media strategy that included that) is destructive to civil society - while what the NYT did (though unprofessional) is still a normal aspect of a marketplace of ideas. Compare this behavior with Jeff Bezos. For all his faults, he did something infinitely classier. He actually bankrolled a news organization that has a global presence and practices journalistic excellence - and did not try to meddle in its editorial policy beyond that (or if he did, it was so subtle as to be imperceptible).