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Jonathan Kay on the State of Journalism, the Perils of Audience Capture, and the Art of Podcasting

Quillette Podcast

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Canadian Journalists, You Don't Want to Be a Journalist

Living in Canada sometimes is like you're watching some really boring show on TV and then during the commercials, you flip over to something a little racier. How much is that just driven by people consuming American media? It's kind of like inhabiting this action movie. And also for Canadian journalists, you tweet about Trump and you get a thousand retweets. You tweet about your local provincial premier. By the way, in Canada, provincial premiers have a ton of power. But if you tweet about the premier of Manitoba, you're not going to get a thousandretweets,. So part of it was just sort of behaviorist conditioning. I wouldn't go back to your beginnings

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