New Yorker review of Musk hagiography says Twitter "has American journalism in a choke hold."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review
Journalists are choking themselves. It is their decision. Musk must chortle every day as he watches journalists bend over to support his business.
They could leave, and take their audiences with them, if they wanted to. They don't.
They're doing this to themselves. Inertia, amoral calculation, and timidity are weapons of self-destruction.
Dan Gillmor /
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