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#395 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Nothing Is True and Debate is Murder"

The Fifth Column

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Do You Do Journalism? You Can't Control the Response to People Taking Your Stuff

If you do journalism of any quality at all, it's going to be cited. It's a crazy idea that you can have some kind of guilt by association because the bad people liked your piece that proves your piece is bad. That doesn't work. The response that we get from people that we read on our paid subscriber only edition every week are from people from all over the political spectrum. And that is a very rewarding thing to me. If I found out that all kinds of crazy people were like taking our stuff and using it for their own ends, that's what they're supposed to do. They want to have a monopoly in the mainstream media of information, of ideology. New York

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