Startup idea for whoever wants it: Now that formerly neutral(ish) "newspapers of record" have been forced to pick a side to avoid going out of business, there may be room for a new publication to serve that need. Can't say for sure it will work, but it's a beachhead.
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Neutrality/objectivity was a myth born of monopolistic markets, which are gone. That myth helped lead to the implosion of trust in journalism, for that myth was just that: a lie. So I would not invest in your business.
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Replying to @jeffjarvis @paulg
There are many alternatives besides actually doing editorial. For example, generating graphs like this: https://www.vox.com/2019/1/21/18183633/facebook-new-york-times-coverage-negative …pic.twitter.com/XlIT1G57Cp
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Sure - because Facebook attention-maximizing algorithms are neutral but NYT reporters are not.

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Balaji S. Srinivasan Retweeted Paul Graham
Both FB/Twitter algorithms and NYT editorial decisions were responsible for this. Long term solution is decentralization.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1136962504343662592 …
Balaji S. Srinivasan added,
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I wouldn’t argue against bias in the reporting - it’s there. But you’re leaving out any signal that is related to the actions / situation of Facebook itself. Your contention is that it’s 100% narrative/editorial decisions and 0% quasi-objective truth?
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Replying to @arigesher @balajis and
I don’t think that’s implied. But I don’t think that FB’s direction or influence on society has fundamentally changed. The discourse about it has changed, especially after Trump got elected, and the press realized that their influence was no longer sufficient to prevent that.
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... which is attributable to a collective change in understanding of the societal costs of these platforms. There’s going to be a lag between deployment and realization of the effect - as is well documented in the Industrial Revolution. 1/2
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Replying to @arigesher @Plinz and
So not a strong vote for all editorial / no truth. It’s easy to attribute it to journalists having bruised egos about waning influence, but I don’t think it’s the best or only explanation.
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I don't think it is about having bruised egos. Most journalists constitute themselves not as autonomous observers, but as members of moral communities. As a result, they don't *want* to promote nonpartisanship, but what they strongly experience as the right side.
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