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i think it's really hard to understand a lot of what happened, or is happening with news without understanding that your typical newspaper in particular, had a local monopoly. And so this was the source of all their profits,. because if you were an advertiser and you wanted to reach everyone, like that was your best option - but also tenuous position. So i'm not saying that that the motivation to set up a chinese wall was a bad one. I think it was a good one. But there as also a big benefit to that in that, ah, you know, you could keep, you could mollify advertisers, you can mollify the people that be a from

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