Anil Dash
I was trying to understand why a Daily Caller editor told me to delete my Twitter account after I criticized hyperbolic reactions about @TNR
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And I realized that to folks running these outlets, to admit that *any* of them are irrelevant to most people is to admit they *all* are.
Doesn't mean they can't do good work, or that they don't contribute to the conversation. Just that they're not the center of the world.
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I love media! I have even committed acts of media myself. I have huge respect for people who create it. Just make the story about others.
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@anildash FWiW, I'd love to talk with you or Gina about what I've seen with our account this week. And what the insights don't yet capture. -
@oiler yes please! Shoot me an email to anil@thinkup.com? -
@anildash Will do.
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@anildash I worked for a magazine that was a darling of the publishing world. We resigned en masse. Life continued on Earth unchanged. -
@waldojaquith I've seen it happen firsthand. But I knew I was disposable, I guess. (Helps that I was young & less full of myself then.)
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@anildash Reminds me of sthg from@freebsdgirl's feed, how trolls see blocking—simply refusing to listen—as an act of aggression… - View other replies
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@neville_park@anildash@freebsdgirl well, blocking is an act of aggression. However that doesn't mean it's unjustified or undeserved IMO - View other replies
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@ricky_raw@neville_park@anildash blocking is *not* usually an act of aggression. sometimes it's just self preservation. - View other replies
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@freebsdgirl@ricky_raw@neville_park@anildash No, no, see, women not listening to men is innately *aggressive*, because man-feels. - View other replies
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@sschinke@freebsdgirl@neville_park@anildash ??? Who is that directed toward? - Show more
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@anildash Twitter itself gives the illusion of importance. If a journalist mostly follows other journalists who are all referencing TNY... -
@anildash They are happy to conplain about the deleterious effect of the Facebook Algorithm, though. Neat way to avoid the framing of bias. -
@anildash it is similarly shocking, for us, to accept SO MANY people think this way egocentrically. But it means we have so much work to do -
@anildash (also, that DC editor probably gets beers after work with a bunch of TNR staff and really enjoyed the Bell Curve piece) -
@anildash Sadly, in a world where everyone can publish, good journalism has become a commodity falling in val like pumpkins after Halloween -
@anildash Anil. any line of thinking here undermines the entire foundation of their lives! It's like you told them they were a human battery -
@anildash I mean TNR. -
@anildash ...then it's probably easy to feel like this is The Most Important Thing.
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