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Look at how much NYT reporters hate and resent Substack, because it provides the ability of writers and journalists to be heard and to reach an audience without having to submit to their monopolistic structures and discourse controls.
Corporate journalists despise independence: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1327327747903930368
Corporate journalists despise independence: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1327327747903930368
This is the same reason they hate @JoeRogan. They think it's a grave injustice that millions want to listen to to him -- are willing to pay -- but not to them, and that he's free to say what he wants and they're not.
The more free discourse emerges, the more they'll malign it.
The more free discourse emerges, the more they'll malign it.
As for money: NYT makes enormous profit. They make it by keeping fear levels high and trying to deceive people into believing that only they speak Truth and provide reliable commentary (despite their, you know, history).
They hate anything that threatens that hegemonic control.
They hate anything that threatens that hegemonic control.
Exactly. Journalists at NYT and NBC and CNN who make enormous salaries but know nobody would read them if they left -- because they do nothing unique: just spout corporate scripts -- are most threatened by independent journalists who don't need them. https://twitter.com/ldnjunk/status/1328682222736580613?s=20
This is the reality:
The largest corporate media outlets (NBC/NYT/WPost/CNN) know they're hatred & distrusted, and that this hatred/distrust is deserved (look at what they've done).
They will try to malign, then destroy, anything that thrives outside of their control.
The largest corporate media outlets (NBC/NYT/WPost/CNN) know they're hatred & distrusted, and that this hatred/distrust is deserved (look at what they've done).
They will try to malign, then destroy, anything that thrives outside of their control.
Here's an email exchange I had with someone yesterday about that @CJR article that maligned Substack as nothing more than a place of unearned privilege and entitlement. As Substack (and other independent-voice-supporting platforms like Patreon) thrive, these attacks will grow.
When I did the Snowden reporting, there were many causes (the right of privacy, abuse of government secrecy, etc), but the overarching one was internet freedom.
That's the same key fight emerging now: will media corps, Dems and the national security state censor the internet?
That's the same key fight emerging now: will media corps, Dems and the national security state censor the internet?
