legacy media
8 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 25, 2025 by Marc Andreessen · across every show →
Everything said about legacy media, oldest first
Jul 25, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Tech-media relations will never return to pre-2017 dynamics
“My perspective is the world changed like really profoundly dramatically in 2017 and set off a whole cascading series of changes since. But you know, we're, we, we've never gone back to the way things were in 2016 or before. And I mean, we can speculate as to w…”
Jul 25, 2025 bullish
Andreessen: Future politicians will completely disconnect from legacy media
“There are going to be politicians 1020 years from now where it's going to be like, oh, they took the Trump, you know, and time will pass, and things will get refined, and so they will have taken the Trump playbook. They will at some point, I think, completely …”
Aug 1, 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: Financial collapse drove legacy media to adopt ideological wokeness
“This is actually what led to wokeness because it was, you know, you've heard the saying go woke, go broke, right? Yeah. But in their case, it was actually go broke, go woke. Okay. Not my original coinage, but applied to this graph, it's relatively original bec…”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: Wikipedia is garbage for contemporary political topics
“Wikipedia is actually just as bad as the media because Wikipedia, it's garbage in, garbage out. What happens is you can only cite articles from legacy media. You can't cite social media directly. So Wikipedia is a rehash. So anything that's contemporary, anyth…”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: Tech builds transformative companies while legacy media seeks control
“We want to build Googles and Facebooks and, you know, AI and giant companies, giant cryptocurrencies, and now internet communities. What they want to do is they want to exert authority over others. For them, the best thing they can do is to put a man out of wo…”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: Media claims positive influence while denying negative societal impacts
“When it comes publisher time, they will admit that their stories led to something. But when it comes BLM time, they deny that their stories led to America, you know, half America getting burned down. So it's a one-way ratchet where they take all the credit and…”
Jun 19, 2026 negative
Andreessen: Legacy Media Has Lost Its Prestige and Respectability
“There's still this anxiety that people have, which is legacy media somehow is, like, where the respectability is, the prestige is. I don't believe that anymore, and I think it's very important for people to kind of get that out of their system.”
Jun 19, 2026 negative