What a well written piece... and Ms. Gerson is right, it is not about journalism, but about power and who holds it. The thing I think that these critics miss is that so many readers (you know, those people who have to put up with the pap they try to pass off as informed content) want change too. It isn't just journalists that want and need change. I want my opinions and thoughts challenged in a thoughtful, pointed manner. I don't need to be pampered and catered to by my echo chamber, nor do I need to be talked down to by the "other side". I want good journalism and if going to indie media outlets in whatever form they take is what it gets to get then that is what readers like me will do.
This sentence is an example of the fun with words that one can have on Substack: "Their dying duty will be to edit the increasingly ridiculous raw copy of their in-house septuagenarian cranks as those now-indispensable writers age past their rhetorical prime." I thoroughly enjoyed this piece and am glad to play a bit part in supporting this project.
the activist-journalists thought they would simply replace the journalist-journalists. finding out they are taking their toys to a new sandbox is making them shake with indignation
I love this. Thanks you, Jen.
Here's hoping that in 30 years the youths are admonishing me for reading that old crank Gerson!
We are sure that Jen Gerson is already an old crank.
I mean.... if the shoe fits.
What a well written piece... and Ms. Gerson is right, it is not about journalism, but about power and who holds it. The thing I think that these critics miss is that so many readers (you know, those people who have to put up with the pap they try to pass off as informed content) want change too. It isn't just journalists that want and need change. I want my opinions and thoughts challenged in a thoughtful, pointed manner. I don't need to be pampered and catered to by my echo chamber, nor do I need to be talked down to by the "other side". I want good journalism and if going to indie media outlets in whatever form they take is what it gets to get then that is what readers like me will do.
This sentence is an example of the fun with words that one can have on Substack: "Their dying duty will be to edit the increasingly ridiculous raw copy of their in-house septuagenarian cranks as those now-indispensable writers age past their rhetorical prime." I thoroughly enjoyed this piece and am glad to play a bit part in supporting this project.
Those damn septuagenarians...glad I am subscribing!
the activist-journalists thought they would simply replace the journalist-journalists. finding out they are taking their toys to a new sandbox is making them shake with indignation
Liked by Kurt Cobain.