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Last night, the Senate officially voted to end taxpayer funding for NPR.
To celebrate, we read some of the NPR CEO's most deranged tweets.
Enjoy. https://t.co/HkZibmJPMT
Eric Schmittx.comBuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"
vox.comHBP’s figures put the organization within the orbit of luminaries like The Economist while simultaneously positioning peers like Forbes, Fortune, Axios, and others in the rearview mirror. Remarkably, HBP has managed this with a considerably leaner staff, employing just 450.
Mario Gabriele • Harvard, a Media Company | The Generalist
Opinion | Jeff Bezos: The Hard Truth: Americans Don’t Trust the News Media - The Washington Post
Jeff Bezoswashingtonpost.com
The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
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NEW: Tech billionaire and lifelong Democrat Mark Pincus reveals his "Red Pill" moment, sparked by Mike Solana's Pirate Wires and the "very fine people" hoax, culminating in him voting for Donald Trump.
"I started reading @PirateWires and @micsolana, and I thought he was a little crazy at first because he would write the... See more
KanekoaTheGreatx.comThe Times, Peretti allowed, has since refined a very good subscription business model, which has allowed it to make better journalism by hiring more and better talent. This is not a controversial opinion. But the next part may be: The New York Times, Peretti argued, can’t really be called “the paper of record” anymore — because of that same subscri... See more