Malcolm Gladwell
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And then someone else found a picture.
We had moved into new offices, my company, and I had tweeted out a picture of my office because I was so proud of it.
And someone took that picture online and said, this is Gladwell's picture of the office he works from from home.
which was nuts, but everyone believed that too.
And so word got around the internet that I was someone who worked from home, believed everyone else should not work from home, and was so overwhelmed emotionally with my hypocrisy that I was close to tears.
The height of it was, I was trending on Twitter for a while, it was quite an extraordinary experience.
The height of it was when some blogger in Philadelphia wrote a story saying, this is exactly the kind of hypocrisy you should expect from a single childless man who never leaves his apartment.
And so I called him up and said, I'm not single, I'm not childless, and I don't have an apartment, and I go to the office every day and have done so for years.
And he said, I'll correct it.
But then of course he never did.
And in the course of the entire controversy, only one person, one reporter called me to try and set the record straight.
And where did that reporter work?
In the mainstream media.
Now, others have been talking about content, the content of the things that people in the mainstream media say and the problems they have with that content.
I don't think the issue here is content.
The issue here is process, right?
The issue here is the mainstream media has a set of professional norms in place that work the best way they can towards the production of fairness and accuracy.
The non-mainstream media
is a set of institutions that are outside of that tradition, that have an open and not a closed platform.
And you cannot have an open platform and simultaneously adhere to a strict set of professional norms.
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