I do think there is a new, like right now a generation, you know, these things come in waves and respond to what's happening in the world. And I do hope that we are kind of in that cohort. If you're in the news business, you have to have news. Like I spent much of my career caring only about scoops. The problem with news is not enough scoops. People meet them where they are, but they may never see them if you don't break news. So this is my continued justification for scoops. You have to be useful.
Netflix beat estimates for Q3 and added two million subscribers. Meta has Super-App dreams for WhatsApp, and Mark Zuckerberg is ready to take on iMessage. Plus, Twitter freezes employees' stock accounts, and an activist investor grabs a significant stake in Salesforce. Friend of Pivot Ben Smith joins Kara and Scott to talk about the state of media, and the launch of his news platform, Semafor.
You can find Ben on Twitter at @semaforben, and Semafor at semafor.com.
You can listen to Kara’s new show, On with Kara Swisher, here.
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