Legacy Media
topic on 6 shows · 20 statements across 11 episodes
More or Less
the Startup Ideas Podcast
Sourcery
the a16z Podcast
All-In
TBPN
20 statements about Legacy Media, every show
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.”
Andreessen: Agenda-driven legacy media will never reverse or unwind
“Basically since then, my view is that, that sort of second mode of being you know, which is to, the sort of agenda-driven, you know, kind of really took over, which I think, and I think probably will never, never actually unwind.”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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 …”
Legacy media is remarkably slow at covering startup news
“I saw this trickling throughout media like days after it's actually insane how slow like legacy media is.”
Lessin: Big newsrooms adopt ideological journalism to pay bills
“A lot of them, the larger news organizations That we're doing it leans towards agenda driven journalism and ideology to kind of pay their bills during this wave of digital destruction.”
Guo: Journalists can earn more independently than in legacy media
“Journalists are realizing that they can make more on their own, which is why there's so many companies really that are popping off for these journalists to be able to exit the legacy media and essentially be their own reporter, right?”
Guo: Legacy media is disappearing as consumers seek alternative news sources
“Because this is the perception nowadays, I think that legacy media is disappearing and really it is the consumer that's trying to, like, get the real news.”
Lucy Guo: Untrusted legacy media journalists face steep trust barriers independently
“I would say for those who, like, worked for Legacy Media and, like, don't have an audience, and that Legacy Media was one that, like, America doesn't trust it's going to be very hard to gain the trust of Americans to want to subscribe to them.”
Hays: Algorithmic feeds mean legacy media cannot coast on followers
“In many ways today with the algorithms, you need to come on the platforms and earn that influence and audience every single day. It's not like a, you know, basically like, oh, we're giving this audience and you can, you know, say whatever you want to it over a…”
Sacks: Legacy media will attack DOGE as self-serving regardless of strategy
“That story that you told is gonna be told by the legacy media and all the haters and the enemies, regardless of what Elon and Vink do.”
Sacks: Trump would have won by 20M votes if media were fair
“If the legacy media was fair, it would have been twenty million votes.”
Sacks: Repudiation of legacy media is a key outcome of 2024 election
“I would just say that the legacy media spell is broken. Their credibility has been destroyed. And I think that the repudiation of the legacy media is one of the most important results of this election.”
Sacks: Legacy media will claim Trump lied if deportations fall short of 15 million
“And you know what's going to happen? The legacy media is going to say, well, he lied because he didn't deport the other 14.2 million.”
Lieberman: Distressed legacy media ignored newsletters as destinations, creating opportunities
“I think any legacy media brand that stands for something that is cutting head counter staff at bare minimum and closing their doors at maximum,
Is an opportunity for this because I still have yet to meet a legacy media company that truly thinks about their new…”