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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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I would like to talk about whatever you are talking about here, but I haven't heard the podcast, so maybe you could explain to me what the point about Zuckerberg is?
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I’ve not heard Bharara’s podcast, but I’ve heard him as a guest on many. He’s excellent... even for a prosecutor.
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Yes, he's good. Friend of a good friend, too.
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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.
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My problem with them is that I prefer text to audio. That's about me, not them.
Podcasts are part of a broader trend in media we have discussed before, which is that the costs of the equipment needed to publish have come way, way down.
