The Ledger
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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…”
Charlie Munger: Newspapers are depleting oil wells; WSJ is a trade journal
“This is not a business, Tony. It's an oil well. It's depleting to zero. And I said, well, What about the Wall Street Journal? Well, that's not a newspaper. That's a trade journal.”
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…”
WSJ named Patrick Byrne among five people who foresaw the 2008 crisis
“The Wall Street Journal wrote a story at the end of a wait saying, okay, there were five guys who figured this out and, you know, Nassim Taleb and Patrick Byrne.”
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.”
Kaz Nejatian: Running a Public Company Is Difficult If You Care About Media Coverage
“If you care a great deal about what's said about you in the Wall Street Journal, running a public company is incredibly difficult. It's just very difficult. Luckily, I just don't care.”
Andreessen: 1990s union rules required hand-built servers at Wall Street Journal
“For sure through the 19 nineties they actually had a full-time employee who actually hand built all their servers. Because it had been in a prior union contract that all servers to be used by the Washington Post company, or yeah, sorry, the Wall Street Journal…”