Politics Is an Interesting Example of Transparency

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Bias is an endemic in anything, it's always been there. And i'm more interested in the motivations of the people that that are doing something. We have fantastic transparency around whose donating what to ho i oa, bt that'. That's a fair degree of transparency. But id the the less interesting to me because it's not resulting in politicians. I don't think the problem is we need better transparency around whose moneyis flowing what. Like i would prefer to live in the world where amamazon is makinga what the washington post is making. Or survives on the basis that when it references products, it links off to amazon.

In this week’s episode we spend a good bit of time revisiting the native ads discussion, then dive into the different ways that Twitter and Facebook have handled the news this week. From there we discuss Twitter’s timeline changes, the realities of venture capital, and whether or not our entire economic system will survive the automation revolution. Yes, it gets deep quickly!

Links

Ben Thompson: Print, Chinese Walls, and “Objective” Journalism – Stratechery (members only)
Clay Shirky: Last Call – Medium
Jay Rosen: When Quoting Both Sides and Leaving it There is the Riskier Call – PressThink
Hamilton Nolan: Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers – Gawker
Derek Willis: New Republican Leader Finds New Friends, and Quick Cash – New York Times
Marco Arment: I’ll Never Fly Amazon Again – Marco.org
Ben Thompson: Twitter is Great for Unprofitable News – Stratechery (members-only)
Mathew Ingram: Twitter vs. Facebook as a news source – GigaOm
Matt Buchanan: The Twitter of Tomorrow – New Yorker
Humans Need Not Apply – YouTube