newspapers

“It went down by something like two-thirds in the last 15 years. The revenue from classifieds collapsed by two-thirds.”

“Because those have existed in newspapers for, you know, decades, it's considered ok, but then, you know, you have slidey things, and lists, and everything else, and because it's new, it's like, oh god, the web is destroying western culture.”

“When those newspapers did that, The page, the site experience got way, way better, because all the crap advertising disappeared, all the link bait headlines disappeared, all the taboola and the click on 500 other stuff disappears. You get white space on the si…”

“It's the most human way to connect someone to what's going on in another part of the world, and you watch it, and you feel like you're there, and you have a level of empathy for what's going on that you just don't get from reading the newspaper or watching You…”

“I think most local television stations that you watch today are dead. Most newspapers that exist today in cities and towns, either dead or a tiny shell of them, former selves.”

“Friend Rick Rubin says that these are actually the most real things, not the least real things. It's like, if you think professional wrestling is fake, just wait until you read the newspaper.”

“Like, if we'd been back in the late nineties and we'd said, you know, internet will destroy the value of physical distribution, it turned out that meant completely different things for newspapers and movie studios. Like, newspapers got completely screwed by th…”