a funny thing about various loud substackers being so spiteful of the moneyed interests of "corporate media" is that—and, I like many 'stacks!—self-employed writers are much, much more exposed to the ruthless bottom-line logic of their biz than, like, a culture reporter at NPR
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It's a dynamic that has repeated itself whenever a new technology platform comes along—newspapers railed against television, radio, the phonograph, etc.
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Lots of people rally against new things, for right and wrong reasons. But tech industry people are *very* attuned to the link between financial rewards/competition/business calculations and their employment, so they misunderstand culture industries.
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