Re:Marc Andreessen: Why I’m Bullish on the News
by jacques_chester on Saturday May 03, 2014 @04:22PM
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I used to work on the business side of the house. In the classifieds department of one of the first acquisitions of what became Newscorp -- that formidable journal of record, the NT News.
Journalists irked me. Dangerous people. Arrogant. Flighty. Prone to exploiting social norms of disclosure to get a story. Always in a rush to do the minimum possible to hit the quota by deadline.
And essential to the functioning of a free and open society. Like lawyers, we hate them, but we'd be in deep trouble without them.
We already have the Andressen model of "News". It's called long copy marketing, and it's really annoying. No substantial positive public externalities come from it. Oh, and I guess gossip sites too. A critical bulwark of the yeomanry, gossip sites.
Journalists irked me. Dangerous people. Arrogant. Flighty. Prone to exploiting social norms of disclosure to get a story. Always in a rush to do the minimum possible to hit the quota by deadline.
And essential to the functioning of a free and open society. Like lawyers, we hate them, but we'd be in deep trouble without them.
We already have the Andressen model of "News". It's called long copy marketing, and it's really annoying. No substantial positive public externalities come from it. Oh, and I guess gossip sites too. A critical bulwark of the yeomanry, gossip sites.