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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I was reacting to the way you used "destroys," which is its own sort of click-baity cliche.
I don't know Ruhle. Working in Silicon Valley, I have known Swisher's stuff for a long time, and she is excellent. I want to like podcasts, but I don't have space in my life to listen to them. This morning I was driving to work alone, which is uncommon, so I listed to a bit of Preet Bharara's podcast -- I think he is quite good.
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True. Bad word choice. But she was pretty harsh to the media’s cattle herders. I’m not one to defend Zuckerberg, either, but she made a great point that he’s not at fault. He’s doing what a CEO is supposed to do, and if the narrative crafting machines of the media hadn’t failed, hadn’t been clearly acting in the interests of the institutions that spend advertising dollars with them, people would not have so willingly accepted FB as a valid news alternative. So I lazily used destroy. But it fits. But delegitimize might’ve been better.
I’ve not heard Bharara’s podcast, but I’ve heard him as a guest on many. He’s excellent... even for a prosecutor.
I think the important facet of podcasts is if you select good ones, you’ll never again pay serious attention to the larger outlets. They won’t address the niche issues you’ll find interesting. I guess there’s a risk of audience atomization, but the positive side of that is audience enlightenment.
I suspect Swisher hits more high value ears than all of Fox or the NYTimes. It’s encouraging because it’s like the talk radio revolution, but instead of crazy bullshit, it’s more focused on higher brow topics and truth (Apple gets a slightly different group of early adopters than AM radio).
