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Sam Lessin: Someone At The New York Times Must Resign Over Misinformation
“Someone needs to resign from the New York Times, right? Like the disinformation story, which we've all talked about for a generation in terms of where the world is at and where technology is obviously going is finally very practically and publicly coming home …”
Morin: The New York Times is blatantly biased and untrustworthy
“I find myself reading the New York Times now, and it's so clearly blatantly bias anymore that I don't trust what I'm reading.”
Sam Lessin predicts The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI will fail
“That lawsuit, I just can't imagine that OpenAI, the cat's out of the bag. It's just not going to happen, that that, that lawsuit will be successful.”
Brit Morin: LinkedIn gets 11,000 applications per minute; 25% fake by 2028
“11,000 applications are Happening on LinkedIn every minute. And the estimate is that by 20, 28, one in four resumes is, is going to be fake.”
Jessica Lessin: WaPo's General News Strategy Competing With NYT Isn't Working
“And this is, again, to the point you're making, Sam, that even, this is the Washington Post, but it went a kind of middle strategy, right, of trying to be more general news, trying to compete with the New York Times. It just really, really isn't working”
Lessin: The New York Times' power far exceeds its financial weight
“The New York Times is like on paper worth eight billion dollars or something. It's like, it's fine. It's not a very big company, right? But like its power is much, as much, much exceeds its financial weight effectively.”
Lessin: The New York Times stands alone in litigating against OpenAI
“The only one really left standing up is the New York Times, which has a big lawsuit against OpenAI, and others that, like News Corp, my former employer, was talking a really tough game, and then did a one-eighty in their tone, and is now like, we're gonna nego…”