Balaji Srinivasan
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Literally, it's a thing.
And it's just go NYT Co.
price.
Yeah, fine, fine, fine, right.
Yeah, so basically, I don't know why it's being so hard to find.
There we are, right?
So if you go to Max, you'll see their price crashed going into 2012, right?
Actually, this is another piece of the puzzle just for people who don't know this.
So going into this, you can see that their price was low then, right?
Then they discovered that saying woke stuff basically got their, uh,
got their traffic back up, right?
So here, I'll show you this particular very important graphic, okay?
If you look at this link.
So this is something which shows 1970, 2018.
It's a little bit small, but if you zoom in at the top, notice how right in 2013, okay, like mansplaining, toxic masculinity, these things that had never been said in the paper suddenly went absolutely vertical, right?
That is what's called an editorial decision.
At the very top level of the media establishment, they made the decision to start pouring the equivalent of poison into the water supply.
It's like putting sugar in all the food so that you get a short-term bump in traffic at the expense of the long-term health of the republic.
They caused trillions of damage to social fabric.
for a few million dollars worth of clicks.