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Balaji Srinivasan: Musk's Twitter acquisition liberated Meta and YouTube from censorship
“X-Day was also the liberation of Meta and liberation of YouTube, right? All the countries that these racial fanatics at the NYT had occupied, right? All the networks they had occupied. That was like, you know how, like, the Nazi empire was at, like, its peak, …”
Horowitz: Balaji Srinivasan temporarily quit a16z over NYT article crisis
“Inside the firm, it was such a big crisis that actually, I'm pretty sure Bology quit, because he thought we were dead, because the New York Times had just, like, ruined the whole firm with that article.”
Balaji Srinivasan: NYT won Pulitzer Prizes for false Russiagate coverage
“The New York Times collected all these polizers for this, for basically false information, right?”
Balaji Srinivasan: AI can automatically surface every historical contradiction in NYT archives
“AI can do that. AI can do that. AI can find every internal contradiction to NYT ever, ok? And so you could just have them, NYT versus NYT, like, you know, they're enslaving people, and then they're pretending they're, you know, like, there's just so many thing…”
Balaji Srinivasan: The New York Times is A.G. Sulzberger's personal blog
“But with the NYT, they're granted The enormous shield of calling it the NYT, calling it the institution, as opposed to Sulzberger's paper. It is just Sulzberger's paper. It's his blog, right? There's nothing that is printed there without his approval, right?”
Balaji Srinivasan: NYT, WSJ, and WaPo functioned as the presidency's board
“Think of Wall Street Journal, NYT, and Washington Post as the three board of director seats on top of the presidency. The president was, it was like the titular CEO, But the Journal, the Times, and the Washington Post, if they all put their multi-sig key in th…”
Weiss: NYT profile of Sam Bankman-Fried omitted political donations and fraud comparisons
“You have this 2000 word profile in the New York Times that doesn't mention the four hundred million dollars that he donated to Democratic candidates, that doesn't mention, you know, Madoff, Enron, like the kind of things that he's being compared to.”
Balaji Srinivasan: The New York Times lost all influence over the center
“Much of what the NYT and what these guys do, and they're so much weaker than they used to be. Like so, so, so much weaker. Thank God they've lost the center, right? They've lost much of, you know, what happened is they just piled up the subscriptions and they …”
Balaji Srinivasan: Apologists for Stalin and Castro worked at The New York Times
“Stalin's apologist worked at the New York Times. Castro's apologist worked at the New York Times.”
Horowitz: Democratic Party must reject legacy media to be true rebels
“If I was running the democratic party, I would say, okay, look, we either have to, we gotta go full rebel and like, then we can't be like, we actually have to be against CNN as well as Fox news and all this shit. And the New York Times and the Wall Street Jour…”
Weiss: Alternative media hunger driven by falling trust in legacy outlets
“But I think there's a growing audience of people who used to read the New York Times every morning or listen to NPR in their car, and now they're saying, I don't really trust what I'm hearing in those places. Where can I go? And that's frankly where, where com…”
Dixon: Premier News Publishers Pair Great Journalism With Third-Rate Monetization
“You have the journal, the FT, the economists, the New York Times, all of these first rate journalistic institutions with top rate journalistic products bundled with very third rate monetization products.”
Miller: Readers view straight news as a commodity and demand deep analysis
“And people aren't looking for that kind of news anymore. That kind of news is almost a commodity. You know pretty quickly what happened, and people are looking for analysis of that news and deeper reporting.”
Miller: Reader engagement metrics should not dictate newsroom coverage decisions
“If a bomb killed six people in Baghdad, and not that many people read the news story, are we not supposed to be covering that? Of course not. It's still really important to cover that, so we shouldn't be determining what we cover based on what people are readi…”
Kalanick built Atoms in stealth to ignore media scrutiny
“Because remember, I wanted to build without worrying about what the New York Times was saying.”
Boyle: 23% of 17-Year-Old American Boys Have ADHD Diagnoses
“The New York Times expose that came out a couple months ago basically said that 17%, or no, no, 23% of all seventeen-year-old boys have been given an ADHD diagnosis.”
Andreessen: The first NYT article on Mosaic featured uninvolved supervisors
“The bad news is it featured my boss and my boss's boss. Who had nothing to do with the project?”
Dixon: Major AI copyright rulings will take three to five years
“Similar thing with like New York times open AI lawsuit, you know, you're going to have potentially copyright important decisions that have effects on huge economic effects. Decided by judges three to five years from now who are interpreting, you know, hundred …”
Balaji: The New York Times publisher inherited control across five generations
“You know, like Sulzberger, who's inherited the New York Times from his father's father's father's father's father's father, right? Like five generations.”
NYT retracted its 1920 Robert Goddard mockery after Apollo 11 launched
“About 49 years after the Times printed that, the day after the successful Apollo 11 launch to the moon, the Times printed a retraction and said, apparently rocket flight does not violate the laws of physics and quote, the Times regrets the error.”