Marc Andreessen
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026
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And then he would basically set them off to have these raging arguments with each other in his newspaper.
And people would buy his...
People would buy his newspaper to cover this.
And then that culminated in the election of 1800, which was the famous election of Thomas Jefferson versus John Adams, which was sort of this newspaper-centric election, which was characterized by a level of slander.
Like the degree to which partisans of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams attack each other in the 1800 election is like way beyond even what we see today on social media.
Like they accused each other of the most horrible shit you can possibly imagine.
And it became like this giant scandal.
And so like this is not the idea that there's like whatever rhetorical combat or like that there's like this virtual environment in which there's lots of points of view and there's lots of, you know, again, both lots of truth, lots of lies.
Like this is not new.
In fact, this is the natural order of things.
We just live through a period of artificial volatility and that artificial suppression of volatility with media becoming over centralized.
And obviously those days are over.
Yeah, so again, it's kind of this thing, you kind of reverse engineer it.
It's like, okay, to be a current thing, it has to, you know, again, to be this thing of if it's on the internet, it's a viral internet meme kind of outrage cycle.
So it has to be something that activates outrage.
Like it has to be something that activates the emotional kind of valence of, you have to get like the emotional reaction off of it, right?
And so, you know, it's just like, by the way, this is just like also the history of the press in general.
It's just like whatever, you know, I always say, the news is called the news, not the importance, right?
Like...
Like, you can imagine a version of the news that's called The Importance, and the newspaper is like, here are all the important things that are happening today, right?
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