Matt Pearce

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.

I think we do need like market solutions. And so that's why I've also become somebody who's really interested in antitrust.

I think we do need like market solutions. And so that's why I've also become somebody who's really interested in antitrust.

I think we do need like market solutions. And so that's why I've also become somebody who's really interested in antitrust.

I think it is multiple factors happening at the same time. And because they're happening at the same time, it's easy to mix them up. So part of it is generational. These are older men and they come from a period where successful news media was the kind of nonpartisan, professional,

I think it is multiple factors happening at the same time. And because they're happening at the same time, it's easy to mix them up. So part of it is generational. These are older men and they come from a period where successful news media was the kind of nonpartisan, professional,

I think it is multiple factors happening at the same time. And because they're happening at the same time, it's easy to mix them up. So part of it is generational. These are older men and they come from a period where successful news media was the kind of nonpartisan, professional,

not very in-your-face form of newspaper and TV coverage that they grew up on and which the institutions that they own are the final standard bearers of. The LA Times is probably among the most progressive of the big city newspapers is nonetheless, when you work there as a journalist as I did,

not very in-your-face form of newspaper and TV coverage that they grew up on and which the institutions that they own are the final standard bearers of. The LA Times is probably among the most progressive of the big city newspapers is nonetheless, when you work there as a journalist as I did,

not very in-your-face form of newspaper and TV coverage that they grew up on and which the institutions that they own are the final standard bearers of. The LA Times is probably among the most progressive of the big city newspapers is nonetheless, when you work there as a journalist as I did,

very tightly constrained in terms of the temperament of coverage that you do and the ethics guidelines that you follow. And honestly, I'm somebody who's up two worlds on this because I do live in this world of, you know, the Internet, where I know that, like, actually what the Internet does not want is not objectivity. It wants a point of view. It wants independence. It wants interesting.

very tightly constrained in terms of the temperament of coverage that you do and the ethics guidelines that you follow. And honestly, I'm somebody who's up two worlds on this because I do live in this world of, you know, the Internet, where I know that, like, actually what the Internet does not want is not objectivity. It wants a point of view. It wants independence. It wants interesting.

very tightly constrained in terms of the temperament of coverage that you do and the ethics guidelines that you follow. And honestly, I'm somebody who's up two worlds on this because I do live in this world of, you know, the Internet, where I know that, like, actually what the Internet does not want is not objectivity. It wants a point of view. It wants independence. It wants interesting.

It wants combative. It wants adversarial. It wants passionate. And every single one of those things, for the most part, is not something that gets expressed very well in straight-ahead traditional news reporting that is designed to work against the passions that play well. on the Internet. So part of it is that I think they're of a generation.

It wants combative. It wants adversarial. It wants passionate. And every single one of those things, for the most part, is not something that gets expressed very well in straight-ahead traditional news reporting that is designed to work against the passions that play well. on the Internet. So part of it is that I think they're of a generation.

It wants combative. It wants adversarial. It wants passionate. And every single one of those things, for the most part, is not something that gets expressed very well in straight-ahead traditional news reporting that is designed to work against the passions that play well. on the Internet. So part of it is that I think they're of a generation.

Part of it is that I think they're already bought in on institutions that embrace those ideals. And I think their theory of the case is that like, oh, my God, we've got a bunch of labor lefty employees who have perverted this semblance of objectivity. And for Jeff Bezos, it starts with him looking at Pew data, saying that the public doesn't trust us for Patrick Soon-Shiong.

Part of it is that I think they're already bought in on institutions that embrace those ideals. And I think their theory of the case is that like, oh, my God, we've got a bunch of labor lefty employees who have perverted this semblance of objectivity. And for Jeff Bezos, it starts with him looking at Pew data, saying that the public doesn't trust us for Patrick Soon-Shiong.

Part of it is that I think they're already bought in on institutions that embrace those ideals. And I think their theory of the case is that like, oh, my God, we've got a bunch of labor lefty employees who have perverted this semblance of objectivity. And for Jeff Bezos, it starts with him looking at Pew data, saying that the public doesn't trust us for Patrick Soon-Shiong.

Who is actually currently talking about introducing a bias meter powered by AI to roll out for L.A. Times in January. That's going to tell you whether the story is biased or not, which I'm sorry. Like the New York Times wrote about this and I'm like, this is just fundamentally not serious.