Sublime

The New York Times will triumph financially, dramatically so, and utterly fail as an intellectual institution, at least by its former standards. The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge.

In just the past thirty years, the number of books published worldwide has sextupled, exceeding three million new titles annually. The number of original scripted television shows and movies has similarly grown by a factor of six since the 1980s in the United States alone. You may add to that teetering pile of unread books, unwatched films, and unf

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