McCormick: 2015 New Yorker Profile Marked End of Free-Speech Journalism
Packy McCormick · Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger · Jan 15, 2026 · at 1:16
Packy McCormick, founder of Not Boring Capital, references his recent article on Andreessen Horowitz and compares past versus present journalism attitudes toward free expression.
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“We talked about this great, great tad friend profile in the New Yorker in 2015 that I referenced in the piece that, that I wrote on a 16 Z this past week saying that that kind of kicked off or was the last kind of point in an era where journalism cared about Free speech.”
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