The Disaster of the New York Times

The New York Times was in this sort of old guard media that didn't take the internet seriously. I think there was like an aesthetic issue here, which is that when things would go viral, they would be silly. And so the internet felt silly and not real. But what nobody really understood was the degree to which it would amplify single people over even institutions.

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