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Matt Pearce

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303 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

for a one-to-one match for news production. You can't produce news or original news without journalists. The more journalists that you have, the more news that you can potentially create. Obviously, this is messy. It's not perfect. It ends up funding some players that people don't like. That is the nature of something like that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

for a one-to-one match for news production. You can't produce news or original news without journalists. The more journalists that you have, the more news that you can potentially create. Obviously, this is messy. It's not perfect. It ends up funding some players that people don't like. That is the nature of something like that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

for a one-to-one match for news production. You can't produce news or original news without journalists. The more journalists that you have, the more news that you can potentially create. Obviously, this is messy. It's not perfect. It ends up funding some players that people don't like. That is the nature of something like that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

But that's the way that I would essentially address that problem because the LA Times, when I was there, Like the problem, the version of this that I lived through was I was one of like many people on a team that won a Pulitzer for covering the racist city council tapes that came out a couple of years ago.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

But that's the way that I would essentially address that problem because the LA Times, when I was there, Like the problem, the version of this that I lived through was I was one of like many people on a team that won a Pulitzer for covering the racist city council tapes that came out a couple of years ago.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

But that's the way that I would essentially address that problem because the LA Times, when I was there, Like the problem, the version of this that I lived through was I was one of like many people on a team that won a Pulitzer for covering the racist city council tapes that came out a couple of years ago.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And so basically a few city council people here in LA, along with the president of the local labor federation, ironically.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And so basically a few city council people here in LA, along with the president of the local labor federation, ironically.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And so basically a few city council people here in LA, along with the president of the local labor federation, ironically.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

got in a back room and were discussing gerrymandering in the los angeles city council districts someone had secretly recorded this conversation they were saying some kind of trashy and sometimes racist stuff and it was an la times reporter who spotted it that someone had anonymously posted on reddit and then saw that this was going to be a huge story and then we reported it all the way through now in that case

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

got in a back room and were discussing gerrymandering in the los angeles city council districts someone had secretly recorded this conversation they were saying some kind of trashy and sometimes racist stuff and it was an la times reporter who spotted it that someone had anonymously posted on reddit and then saw that this was going to be a huge story and then we reported it all the way through now in that case

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

got in a back room and were discussing gerrymandering in the los angeles city council districts someone had secretly recorded this conversation they were saying some kind of trashy and sometimes racist stuff and it was an la times reporter who spotted it that someone had anonymously posted on reddit and then saw that this was going to be a huge story and then we reported it all the way through now in that case

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

The public should know about that. That's their city council. Their ability to participate in democracy is influenced by how these people behave. For me, again, as not the person who has to keep the lights on, I just want the information out there because that affects the democracy.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

The public should know about that. That's their city council. Their ability to participate in democracy is influenced by how these people behave. For me, again, as not the person who has to keep the lights on, I just want the information out there because that affects the democracy.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

The public should know about that. That's their city council. Their ability to participate in democracy is influenced by how these people behave. For me, again, as not the person who has to keep the lights on, I just want the information out there because that affects the democracy.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And honestly, if there's a subsidy from a couple of tech monopolies that shouldn't exist that help pay for it, then that allows me to justify that a bit more easily. But the reality is that without it, we're at the mercy of this kind of crazy billionaire who now owns the place, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who's been running it at a massive loss essentially since he bought it from 2018.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And honestly, if there's a subsidy from a couple of tech monopolies that shouldn't exist that help pay for it, then that allows me to justify that a bit more easily. But the reality is that without it, we're at the mercy of this kind of crazy billionaire who now owns the place, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who's been running it at a massive loss essentially since he bought it from 2018.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And honestly, if there's a subsidy from a couple of tech monopolies that shouldn't exist that help pay for it, then that allows me to justify that a bit more easily. But the reality is that without it, we're at the mercy of this kind of crazy billionaire who now owns the place, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who's been running it at a massive loss essentially since he bought it from 2018.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And so the subsidy is coming from one kind of kooky guy who has a lot of bad ideas, but who nonetheless is employing a large number of very qualified and excellent journalists producing this kind of stuff. And like, that doesn't seem very desirable to me because I don't think we should be reliant on an individual person to keep the lights on for that kind of work.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

And so the subsidy is coming from one kind of kooky guy who has a lot of bad ideas, but who nonetheless is employing a large number of very qualified and excellent journalists producing this kind of stuff. And like, that doesn't seem very desirable to me because I don't think we should be reliant on an individual person to keep the lights on for that kind of work.