The Ledger, every show
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Weiss: Medical institutions push race-based care and teenage gender transitions
“In many hospitals and medical schools across the country, people were being told to do something very different, to mete out care based on race, to, you know, to shuffle young teenage girls especially toward irreversible Changes in their bodies and things of t…”
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.”
Weiss: Corporate leaders stay silent on ideology because they fear employees
“I was at an extremely interesting dinner the other night with the heads of a bunch of different companies and they all reported back the same thing. In private, they were saying, we're alarmed about what's happening. We're alarmed about the spread of this ideo…”
Weiss: Younger NYT staff reject objectivity in favor of moral clarity
“Inside, like, let me just give you the example of the New York times inside the New York times, the vast majority of people, especially let's say the older generation, 40 and up believed in the old school values of journalism, you know, striving for objectivit…”
Weiss: Superficial racial diversity from elite schools fails to create ideological diversity
“If you really want to strive for diversity in the New York Times, I'm sorry, but getting people of different skin colors who all went to the same four boarding schools and universities is not genuine. They all think the same thing.”
Weiss: Universities are the nucleation point for institutional decay
“If you're wondering why the museums you love and the publishing houses you love and the newspapers used to trust and, you know, the Hollywood, all of these things, if you want to understand why they are hollowed out, why they are no longer what they used to be…”
Weiss: Mainstream journalists now see their job as guiding political views
“The job description as they see it is to usher you toward the correct political position.”
Weiss: Common Sense rejects applicants hesitating to work across political lines
“Explicitly hiring people. That are different from me, that have different views, and that the first question I ask in every single interview is, are you comfortable working in an organization with people that vote differently from you? And if the answer is in …”
Weiss: Believing America is evil is a luxury belief of the privileged
“To believe that America is a great evil, to believe that the West is not exceptional in its values, even with all of our flaws, is a luxury belief.”
Weiss: The Free Press targets the broad "self-silencing majority"
“There are three sides that I see that are emerging, and I think the free press is trying to position itself in what I believe is the broad self-silencing Majority piece of the pie, which is to say there's a woke left, there's increasingly a woke right, and the…”
Weiss: 95% to 98% of New York Times readers are liberal
“Something like 95 to 98% of readers at the New York Times, and I'm choosing that only because it's the experience I know most intimately, regard themselves as liberals or progressives.”
Weiss: Building competing institutions is the only way to reform legacy media
“I've become someone who believes that the way to change those institutions Is not to give money to those places, or join the board of them, or delude yourself with the idea that you can transform them from within. It's to build new things, and in building new …”
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…”
Weiss: Citizen journalism cannot substitute for traditional newsroom verification
“On the other hand, you know, that is not a substitute for the kind of work that is being done every day at places like Axios. Like, you do need the fact check. You do need, you know, two sources, three sources, you know,”
Weiss: Michael Shellenberger is outperforming mainstream media on San Francisco reporting
“If you look at what Michael Schellenberger is doing on the issues of crime, public policy, and homelessness in the Bay Area and in San Francisco specifically, he's eating the mainstream press's lunch.”
Weiss: Current Era Will Be Remembered as a Soft Cultural Revolution
“I think what we are living through will be remembered ultimately by historians as a kind of cultural revolution. It's a soft culture revolution. It's obviously not coming from some dictator from the top. It's coming from a kind of hive mind that is, you know, …”
Weiss: "The Revolt of the Public" is the most important recent book
“Martin Goury has written about this absolutely brilliantly in his book, The Revolt of the Public, probably the most important book written in the last 25 years.”
Weiss: Society will focus on building new institutions over the next 50 years
“In a lot of cases, I think we're going to be looking over the next 50 or so years at building new things”
Weiss: Outside competition strengthens internal dissent within legacy institutions
“When there is another option out there, when there's competition, it actually strengthens the voices of dissent inside the institutions.”