Ev Williams is an asshole, and Medium has never been anything but a content farm whose main exports are bad self-help and Silicon Valley techwank.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/business/ev-williams-twitter-medium.html
@starbreaker that article is sort of terrifying in its acceptance of certain assumptions, such as the idea that any of those individuals have done any soul-searching, just because occasionally they get caught and have to appear in public to say "sorry"
@jannamark True, but this is the same paper that protects assholes like Ross Douthat and David Brooks from the indignities filing for unemployment or getting a real job.
The New York Times is the newspaper of record for the status quo. They're not going to tear into Silicon Valley. If they did, they'd have to take a long, hard look closer to home and tear into Wall Street.
@starbreaker Thinking about what you have written here leads to the inescapable conclusion that the NYT and the rest of its for-profit news ilk isn't likely to produce any news ever
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
@starbreaker omg I listened to that album so many times! (when opening and closing at work. I think it helped set the mood)