dagblog - Comments for ""Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media""

Ezra Klein:

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:55:53 +0000

In reply to "Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media"

Ezra Klein:

My real worry about Substack is it's expensive, and I suspect it competes with traditional news subscriptions in people's budgets. On the margin, people moving their news dollars towards takes and away from reporting isn't great. But maybe it won't play out that way.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 12, 2021

how can the mere passive

ocean-kat — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:41:23 +0000

In reply to I agree that journalists

how can the mere passive reception of anything be the doing of a "good thing"?

You're right, it wasn't a good thing. I over praised Greenwald.

Here's the thing. In every interaction Greenwald has with other people that I know very well what that other person said because I've read them deeply, for example Greenwald's articles criticizing Sam Harris. I know Greenwald lied repeatedly about Harris' writings and views, gross and deliberate distortions. So how could I have the slightest bit of trust in any information he supplies about things I don't know deeply when I know he is massively dishonest?

I agree that journalists

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:19:33 +0000

In reply to Jemima Kelly sounds a bit

I agree that journalists especially, but everyone else too, should be careful in their use of words. As I see it, your description of what she should have said begs several questions. What "hack" was Greenwald the lucky recipient of? Was luck the only reason he received it? And, how can the mere passive reception of anything be the doing of a "good thing"?

Jemima Kelly sounds a bit

ocean-kat — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:51:09 +0000

In reply to Jemima Kelly sounds a bit

Jemima Kelly sounds a bit jealous when she, after noting the big bucks that Greenwald makes, immediately calls him a "mere Hack".

A journalist should be more careful in the use of her words. She should have said the only good thing Greenwald might have conceivably done is be the lucky recipient of a "mere Hack."

Poor Jemima has her own probs

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 19:30:07 +0000

In reply to "Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media"

Poor Jemima has her own probs (or is being a kept woman a plus?)

i had no part in this and am being tokenised against my will https://t.co/g6QYjN0cJI
— Jemima Kelly (@jemimajoanna) April 1, 2021

But oddly she tweeted this writer on the way to meet the ransom payers - could it be these people we think of as diametrically opposed might be friends and closer to each other than we'd gathered?

"People are turning to alternative media to find options that are neither reactionary ideologues or self-righteous woke yelling. Can you blame them? Substack didn’t create this dynamic, and neither did I."

This is a great essay by Freddie deBoer https://t.co/8WvQ5r0V9w
— Jemima Kelly (@jemimajoanna) March 29, 2021

Jemima Kelly sounds a bit

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 18:22:48 +0000

In reply to "Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media"

Jemima Kelly sounds a bit jealous when she, after noting the big bucks that Greenwald makes, immediately calls him a "mere Hack". It gave me a chuckle to read her reporting done with a derogatory attitude that allows derogatory name calling of someone because they report with an attitude. I won't watch for further reporting by her because she sounds like a mere hack. Thanks for the post though because it reminded me of Freddie deBoer whom I followed for some time years back but had lost track of and forgotten. I just subscribed and if I find him as interesting and informative as I did in the past I will maintain my subscription at his 16 cent a day rate. That fits my budget since I quit the NYT. I recommend his link as an introduction to any who might be unaware of his writing.