With mainstream media of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires, your weirdo friend asks what a people-centered alternative would look like?
Mainstream media outlets like the New York Times have always served elite interests, but consolidation and oligarchic interests have recently driven these institutions entirely off the cliff of respectability. What would a people-powered mass media look like? What standards would it follow? How are stories told, and which stories reinforce the narrative of an elite monopoly on power versus the actual power regular people have in our communities?
In this conversation, we discussed:
Donnie Darko is a Documentary, or the superpowers available to each and every one of us.
The NYT’s Ross Douthat’s columns Did Women Ruin the Workplace? and The Case for Overthrowing Maduro.
The Vox Media model of journalism.
Craigslist “missed connections”
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