The basic truth of the recurring Substack melodrama is that it was largely instigated by a horde of people who are genuinely batshit insane -- like not just regular "brain addled by the internet" insane, but "as close as we can reasonably get to a clinical diagnosis" insane
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In this specific case, it's both, but the overall dynamic is driven by the motive you just described.
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For the more banal legacy media types, sure it’s just a desperate power grasp. But some of the online types like Jude Doyle are outright insane.
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