How Happy Are You NOT Watching Corporate Media?
Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network
I had to take a peek at our competition today. I turned on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. It was 24/7 bashing of President Biden for pardoning his son Hunter. It was pathetic.
There was no context. No nuance. No historical perspective. No discussion of Jared Kushner, Don Jr., Ivanka, and other Trump family conflicts of interest. There was no discussion of Trump’s pardons of the worst people, including his own criminal co-conspirators.
There was no mention that the felony charges brought against Hunter by a Republican special counsel involved buying a firearm while high on drugs in 2018 (something no one else has been charged with) and paying taxes late (normally resolved as a civil penalty at most).
50 successful media entrepreneurs share their top growth hacks
Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter
If there’s one thing I’m most proud of as a creator, it’s that I deliver actionable insights from the world’s most successful media entrepreneurs. To date, I’ve conducted hundreds of interviews with these entrepreneurs, and in each one they walked me through, step by step, how they built their businesses. I publish these interviews in three formats: video, podcast, and a written article. This is to give my audience maximum flexibility as to how they can consume my content.
The 24 Seven: News you can lose
Tom LoBianco, 24 Sight
A continued look at the media siloes which have splintered America
I took two screenshots on Thanksgiving of the top apps on the Apple App store, which seemed to capture this moment in American political history.
On the left in the photo above is the top “News” apps and on the right, the top among all apps (this is for free apps.)
It’s remarkable that none of the of the top “News” apps in the store are actual news outlets, at least not in the sense of professional journalism, publication standards and quality of reporting.
50 successful media entrepreneurs share their top growth hacks
Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter
If there’s one thing I’m most proud of as a creator, it’s that I deliver actionable insights from the world’s most successful media entrepreneurs. To date, I’ve conducted hundreds of interviews with these entrepreneurs, and in each one they walked me through, step by step, how they built their businesses. I publish these interviews in three formats: video, podcast, and a written article. This is to give my audience maximum flexibility as to how they can consume my content.
Cass Sunstein on Campus Free Speech
Yascha Mounk
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Cass Sunstein discuss his “law of group polarization” and how it contributes to today’s factionalism; how echo chambers work (and why social media makes them worse); and whether meeting the challenge of misinformation requires new government regulations.
Trumpomuskovia
Timothy Snyder, Thinking about…
History surprises. Strikingly, we see in most of the scenarios presence of Ukraine: for the old Russian Empire, and for the present one, and for that matter for Hitler, whose chief war aim was the control of Ukraine. Ukraine is a useful shortcut as we try to evaluate Trumpomuskovites: what do they say about Ukraine? As a rule of thumb, those that wish for its fall also want the fall of the American republic. I would expect that the first actions regarding Ukraine will be a harbinger of what is to come for America if Ukraine is sold out, expect America to be sold for parts.
No, you are not on Indigenous land
Noah Smith, Noahpinion
Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
The general principle here is that instead of a dark world of ethnic cleansing in the name of “decolonization”, we should try to build a bright future where Native Americans and the United States of America exist in harmony and cooperation rather than in conflict. And that principle doesn’t just apply to America, but to the whole world. The history of land ownership is a violent and terrible one, but that doesn’t mean the future has to be more of the same
This is a moment to think and plan
Steve Schmidt, The Warning
Understanding a bit of history will be helpful in appreciating how fragile the world we live in truly is.
Humility will be required to listen. Listening will be required to hear, and hearing will be required to obtain wisdom.
There is great wisdom in the culture of America’s native peoples who have forged this nation from its first hours. Harmony is at the center of much of American Indian belief. The white man has much to learn from this.
The Schmidt Storm: McCain, Musk & MSNBC
In the latest edition of “The Schmidt Storm,” I answer your questions on the future of the White House press room, the fate of MSNBC, and what John McCain would think of all of it:
