Chris Best

You pay a lawyer.

They write up a meanly worded thing.

You send it to somebody.

It makes them afraid to do the work.

But when you do that, there's a chance that there's like a very well-funded legal and PR defense that swings to their aid.

Suddenly that can like tip the balance of power back in favor.

Yeah.

By doing even a relatively small number of those, you can help create a climate where it's not costless to harass journalists.

That's great.

We've won a few of those.

It's very satisfying.

I definitely think we're in a time of profound change in media.

And my model of this is it's sort of a technologically driven change.

You know, the internet came along and smashed a lot of the existing business models for media and culture and created these massive new networks that are fantastically profitable businesses without necessarily replacing kind of the economic engine that sustained a lot of this stuff.

And anytime you have a, you know, in history, if you have a major sort of revolution in media or information technology, whether it's the internet or the television or the printing press, you often get kind of a period of unrest or a period of destabilization or a time of cultural churn as we sort of adapt to the new reality.

And I think we're in one of those times now.

what happens when you wire the whole world together into one internet and layering onto it.

Now you can, what happens when anybody can make all kinds of media with AI, when anybody, it's sort of like a,

were in the period of destabilization caused by technological change.

This is why I wanted to start Substack.