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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

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.

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

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.

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

I would say that one of the reasons I took a buyout from the LA Times and don't work there anymore is that I did not feel as though he was equipped to cope with the problems of media of 2024 and 2025. So I'm not surprised to hear him missing the point again. No, it's not going to solve the problem.

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

I would say that one of the reasons I took a buyout from the LA Times and don't work there anymore is that I did not feel as though he was equipped to cope with the problems of media of 2024 and 2025. So I'm not surprised to hear him missing the point again. No, it's not going to solve the problem.

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

I would say that one of the reasons I took a buyout from the LA Times and don't work there anymore is that I did not feel as though he was equipped to cope with the problems of media of 2024 and 2025. So I'm not surprised to hear him missing the point again. No, it's not going to solve the problem.

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

And I think especially for people maybe in like the center center right and to the right, there is ironically, I think still this belief in a kind of universalist form of journalism like we have in the 20th century, this aspiration of objectivity. I think there are a lot of people genuinely who are like, we've gotten away from that. The news coverage has gotten too liberal.

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

And I think especially for people maybe in like the center center right and to the right, there is ironically, I think still this belief in a kind of universalist form of journalism like we have in the 20th century, this aspiration of objectivity. I think there are a lot of people genuinely who are like, we've gotten away from that. The news coverage has gotten too liberal.

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

And I think especially for people maybe in like the center center right and to the right, there is ironically, I think still this belief in a kind of universalist form of journalism like we have in the 20th century, this aspiration of objectivity. I think there are a lot of people genuinely who are like, we've gotten away from that. The news coverage has gotten too liberal.

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

There's too much analysis in it. And we can bring trust back to the media by making everything as odorless as possible and not having a point of view and specifically not a liberal one. And I think that's so funny. I mean, but consumer behavior tells all.

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

There's too much analysis in it. And we can bring trust back to the media by making everything as odorless as possible and not having a point of view and specifically not a liberal one. And I think that's so funny. I mean, but consumer behavior tells all.

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

There's too much analysis in it. And we can bring trust back to the media by making everything as odorless as possible and not having a point of view and specifically not a liberal one. And I think that's so funny. I mean, but consumer behavior tells all.

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

The most successful outlet on cable is Fox News, which is about the least professional, independent, or objective news outlets that you could possibly put on a screen. And it's a great business, or sometimes it's a great business. And I don't think there's a lot of internal rationalization of that because

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

The most successful outlet on cable is Fox News, which is about the least professional, independent, or objective news outlets that you could possibly put on a screen. And it's a great business, or sometimes it's a great business. And I don't think there's a lot of internal rationalization of that because

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

The most successful outlet on cable is Fox News, which is about the least professional, independent, or objective news outlets that you could possibly put on a screen. And it's a great business, or sometimes it's a great business. And I don't think there's a lot of internal rationalization of that because

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

I don't know, like people want the aspiration of a universalist objective media, but consumer behavior is telling me or any of us who look at the data that like that's not the stuff that really plays. This little stuff that is going to do well, the green shoots that are going to survive in this kind of horrific platform environment is the stuff that's really sharply opinionated.

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

I don't know, like people want the aspiration of a universalist objective media, but consumer behavior is telling me or any of us who look at the data that like that's not the stuff that really plays. This little stuff that is going to do well, the green shoots that are going to survive in this kind of horrific platform environment is the stuff that's really sharply opinionated.

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

I don't know, like people want the aspiration of a universalist objective media, but consumer behavior is telling me or any of us who look at the data that like that's not the stuff that really plays. This little stuff that is going to do well, the green shoots that are going to survive in this kind of horrific platform environment is the stuff that's really sharply opinionated.

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

I don't think it's ultimately solvable. I also don't think we can even comprehend what the solution to it is going to be. Because I think the one thing that is constant through all of this is that human nature hasn't changed. I mean, human nature has previously given us more benevolent forms of knowledge transfer and learning and social building and solidarity. That part hasn't changed.

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

I don't think it's ultimately solvable. I also don't think we can even comprehend what the solution to it is going to be. Because I think the one thing that is constant through all of this is that human nature hasn't changed. I mean, human nature has previously given us more benevolent forms of knowledge transfer and learning and social building and solidarity. That part hasn't changed.

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

I don't think it's ultimately solvable. I also don't think we can even comprehend what the solution to it is going to be. Because I think the one thing that is constant through all of this is that human nature hasn't changed. I mean, human nature has previously given us more benevolent forms of knowledge transfer and learning and social building and solidarity. That part hasn't changed.