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mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet

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Perhaps more significant, he’s had a dramatic impact on how the media functions, the kinds of stories it tells, and journalists’ unwillingness to critique the left with the same zeal they attack the right.

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

We’re a country governed by public opinion, and public opinion is largely governed by the press, so isn’t it critical to understand what governs the press?

Ryan Holiday • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

“There Has to Be a Line”: Substack’s Founders Dive Headfirst Into the Culture Wars

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There’s a really interesting discrepancy between the internal and the external conversation around Facebook right now, because the external conversation is a lot of like, “Are these people good or evil? What are they doing to the world?”

Alex Kantrowitz • Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton

Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media

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What was Trump? A fascist? A white nationalist? A malignant narcissist? A conservative with very bad manners? Once he became president, his only legislative achievement—a huge tax cut that heavily favored the rich and corporations—fit right in with Republican orthodoxy. His court appointments were friendly to business interests and also to religiou