Amazon Is a Sponsor of the Wall Street Journal, and I'm Not Trying to Generate Disagreement

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A, theyre, a, the republicans are just had a new house whip, because eri canter wass is primary wih sepping dow rom congress. And immediately, one of the very first companies contributed to him was amazon. Ah, we have no idea when and if the washington post writes about amazon, if if jeff bez has any sort of influence on it. We besider says every time they at ps, and they say that besless isan is an investor. I honestly cannot wrap my head around why that bothers you less than an article that has a logo of the company that paid to sponsor it, and it says, this is

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!

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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