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Jon Allsop

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1. “You recently wrote a blog post after the election has a great title Lessons on Media Policy at the Slaughter Bench of History, which is very dire. But there's one sentence in here that I read and I thought, oh, I should just talk to Matt for a while on Dakota, and we should just talk about this one sentence. You wrote America's information economy is rotten from top to bottom, starting with a digital infrastructure that stands between quality journalism and the public. What do you mean?”

   2024-12-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Platforms need the news, but they're killing it · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “We talked about that piece, the evolution of journalism in the digital age, and what, if anything, can be done in the future to ensure reliable news outlets can still inform the public, and importantly, survive financially. We also got into what mechanisms can and should be used to fund independent journalism and how building a direct audience and exercising control over distribution is more important today than it's ever been. We also talked about the internet and whether the giant platform companies that dominate the internet have any interest in prioritizing journalism in truth, especially in a world where the billionaires who own the newspapers also own the tech companies. There's a lot going on in this one. One really interesting dynamic in this conversation is that Matt is literally a union president. He represents reporters in the media guild of the West. I am the head of the Virgil newsroom. By definition, I'm management, I'm not part of the Vox Media Union, which represents most of the folks on our team. But as you'll hear in the episode.”

   2024-12-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Platforms need the news, but they're killing it · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Google search, and now short form video platforms like TikTok. That means a lot of our media ecosystem is driven by algorithmic recommendation systems, which tend to favor quantity over quality. And that's created a news ecosystem that allows a lot of influencers and aggregators to take the value created by original journalism and maximize it for an algorithmic audience that doesn't really know where the information first came from and probably doesn't care. Last month, in the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, media critic and union president Matt Pierce, who represents the media guild of the West, wrote a particularly good blog post laying this all out. It's called Lessons on Media Policy at the Slaughter Bench of History, and in it, Matt laid out pretty succinctly why, quote, America's information economy is rotten from top to bottom, starting with the digital infrastructure that stands between quality journalism and the public. Yeah, that's the quote. I read it and I thought, all right, we got to get Matt on the show.”

   2024-12-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Platforms need the news, but they're killing it · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT