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This story is almost exactly the plot of The Newsroom (HBO) episode from two weeks ago, where a mega-douchey tech entrepreneur (played brilliantly by BJ Novak)
by ajsharp 12y ago
This story is almost exactly the plot of The Newsroom (HBO) episode from two weeks ago, where a mega-douchey tech entrepreneur (played brilliantly by BJ Novak) purchases ACN with the intent of turning the network into a crowdsourced, citizen-journalism "digital media company." The real-life story is hilariously similar.
- presty 12y agoI thought they had exaggerated a little on the last episode, but reading the stuff Hughes and Vidra said made me cringe...
- atourgates 12y agoEarlier, I had complained that this was just more of Sorkin's distaste for anything new. My argument was that no real SV billionaire would buy a traditional media company to turn it into the next Buzzfeed, since there's no value there. They'd just start from scratch. Turns out I was wrong.