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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

But I think the reality is, is if you're somebody who has made the personal choice to consume information on social media, then the reality is that at some point you will be getting news from Pop Crave because Pop Crave has figured out how to be better at distribution than you are.

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

But I think the reality is, is if you're somebody who has made the personal choice to consume information on social media, then the reality is that at some point you will be getting news from Pop Crave because Pop Crave has figured out how to be better at distribution than you are.

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

So this is my argue on that. And I will say one thing where my alignment as a trade union president on top of being a journalist is that I tend not to pick on my fellow market participants as much as I want to go pick on the person holding the money back. So which in this case, is the platforms and the people who create the ecosystems that allow the pop craves to thrive.

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

So this is my argue on that. And I will say one thing where my alignment as a trade union president on top of being a journalist is that I tend not to pick on my fellow market participants as much as I want to go pick on the person holding the money back. So which in this case, is the platforms and the people who create the ecosystems that allow the pop craves to thrive.

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

So this is my argue on that. And I will say one thing where my alignment as a trade union president on top of being a journalist is that I tend not to pick on my fellow market participants as much as I want to go pick on the person holding the money back. So which in this case, is the platforms and the people who create the ecosystems that allow the pop craves to thrive.

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

The way that we argued for this in the legislation that we've been looking at is essentially to subsidize the labor specifically of journalists rather than you know, publishers more broadly.

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

The way that we argued for this in the legislation that we've been looking at is essentially to subsidize the labor specifically of journalists rather than you know, publishers more broadly.

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

The way that we argued for this in the legislation that we've been looking at is essentially to subsidize the labor specifically of journalists rather than you know, publishers more broadly.

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

And I mean, some of this is a little bit wonky, but for me, the concept is that the only thing that distinguishes publishers from other types of businesses or content creators on the internet is that they employ journalists. And specifically, they employ journalists that perform functions that are

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

And I mean, some of this is a little bit wonky, but for me, the concept is that the only thing that distinguishes publishers from other types of businesses or content creators on the internet is that they employ journalists. And specifically, they employ journalists that perform functions that are

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

And I mean, some of this is a little bit wonky, but for me, the concept is that the only thing that distinguishes publishers from other types of businesses or content creators on the internet is that they employ journalists. And specifically, they employ journalists that perform functions that are

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

historically or traditionally recognizable as the type of stuff that newspaper reporters and TV producers have long done in the history of this country. And those are classifications of work that exist in the BLS data. It's their ways of crafting or at least drafting legislation that says this is a shape of labor that we think is important and should be supported.

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

historically or traditionally recognizable as the type of stuff that newspaper reporters and TV producers have long done in the history of this country. And those are classifications of work that exist in the BLS data. It's their ways of crafting or at least drafting legislation that says this is a shape of labor that we think is important and should be supported.

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

historically or traditionally recognizable as the type of stuff that newspaper reporters and TV producers have long done in the history of this country. And those are classifications of work that exist in the BLS data. It's their ways of crafting or at least drafting legislation that says this is a shape of labor that we think is important and should be supported.

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

And so the way that we argued the case when we were in front of the California legislature

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

And so the way that we argued the case when we were in front of the California legislature

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

And so the way that we argued the case when we were in front of the California legislature

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

And, you know, what we would argue in front of Congress as well, if this came up, is that if you're going to have transfers of money between platforms and publishers for the sake of rebalancing this marketplace, then it should appear in the form of a journalism labor subsidy that's based on how many journalists that you employ, because that is about the closest thing that you are going to get.

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

And, you know, what we would argue in front of Congress as well, if this came up, is that if you're going to have transfers of money between platforms and publishers for the sake of rebalancing this marketplace, then it should appear in the form of a journalism labor subsidy that's based on how many journalists that you employ, because that is about the closest thing that you are going to get.

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

And, you know, what we would argue in front of Congress as well, if this came up, is that if you're going to have transfers of money between platforms and publishers for the sake of rebalancing this marketplace, then it should appear in the form of a journalism labor subsidy that's based on how many journalists that you employ, because that is about the closest thing that you are going to get.