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@Wmboot That's why there is a wall between business side and editorial side. The question is then if the company operates ethically, if it chases ethical incentives. I think that it does. WashPost has HR, a unionized workforce, a set of goals outside of 'more traffic'.
@Wmboot All journalism companies must face pressure from advertisers and owners, but VC is allowed to create policy for a company and set incentives in a way that advertisers or owners cannot.
@Wmboot VC impacts newsrooms far more than any other thing is allowed to because VC sets strategy.
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The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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Your scale business models are a house of cards on a base of imaginary numbers.

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This is interesting, if somewhat expected:

"Oath has also achieved lower than expected benefits from the integration of the Yahoo Inc. and AOL Inc. businesses."

I think there's more going on than the surface examination I've been seeing... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-car…
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The first is the deal was made on pre-Facebook-massacre traffic and you can bet that all the acquisition projections and pricing were made on the assumption that 3rd party platforms would continue to operate in the style to which Oath is accustomed. Always happens, always dumb...
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You cannot apply Tech Startup Economics to a Journalism company and expect it to operate ethically. All VC-based startups are operating on a set of incentives which are already unethical, but doubly so for journalists niemanlab.org/2018/11/mic-la…
You cannot chase Startup Tech VC Scale as a media company and win. It just isn't possible.
When Mic made the decision to chase scale at the infinite value of Big Tech it was doomed. Period. There was no win-condition.
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