I think it's very difficult to understand what the value of someone is. I'm a different generation where you sure I know those outlets, but not regularly and things like POC, Semaphore, some of their newsletters have definitely been added to my media diet. Most people get stuff from Facebook. That's what's really happened. And by the way, most people weren't reading newspapers anyway. They turn on Fox News or MSNBC and that sort of thing. It is an elite discussion of media. Advertisers want that audience. Axios was catering to yuppies; they got sold for half a billion bucks to Cox. You can be light and elite and make big in
To make sense of a turbulent and important week in media, we turn to Ben Smith who was the founding Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed News (2012 to 2020) and the former New York Times media critic (from 2020 to 2022). On the agenda: the shuttering of Buzzfeed News, the meaning of Murdoch's settlement with Dominion and what Ben is working on these days, including his news organization Semafor and his forthcoming book, Traffic.
Since we taped Kara got her blue check (against her wishes!) when Twitter re-verified some accounts over the weekend.
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