EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

vox is a nice website. but how does it make money? it isn't a subscription service, and i don't see any ads on the pages.

http://i.imgur.com/Zznnt3u.png

spending all that ad money on jobs is no way to run a business

i don't see any ads on the pages

wasn't ge or gm their "launch sponsor"?

look at the right side of the site, above where it says "#pressing"

also in the middle of the page

one ad on this page

http://i.imgur.com/3VlpXUh.png

right. i spotted an ad on second-look, but there aren't many (maybe just the one i remember). normally i expect to see almost all the available "real-estate" occupied by ads. this site seems different, in that regard.

prob just easing their way into it

guess you didn't see that article where they said the internet was invented by GE and you should buy GE products to best use internet

i only read graphs

http://www.vox.com/2014/4/22/5636156/basic-a-beginners-guide-to-everyones-favorite-new-insult

on the verge of unfollowing everyone associated with this site

might as well put this here

http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/

*farts*

I think there's something potentially insidious about "just explaining complicated stuff in an objective way" journalism, since it tends to obscure agendas and ideology. I'm reminded of that widely-cited Daily Beast piece about the Allen/Farrow molestation charges that took that "Whoa whoa, let's look at ALL the facts" approach to mask an obvious pro-Allen bias.

None of this has anything to do with "basic."

next they'll explain because

the internet really is the worst

surprised how frivolous theyve gone w a lot of their stuff

almost like theyre making fun of themselves

might as well put this here

http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/

― goole, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:42 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems way better than 538

can they have a vlog where a youth explains things to me? it'd be more honest and you'd understand the narrative bias instead of this run-around they're trying

https://twitter.com/alex_abads/media

makes u think

surprised how frivolous theyve gone w a lot of their stuff

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost like theyre making fun of themselves

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Silver barks into conference call phone: "we want smart buzzfeed readers"

disappointed that felix salmon is leaving reuters for some new bullshit thats 'post-text'

post-text is the worst buzzword ive hear in a long time

sounds like some derrida shit

tbf his estimation that folks will follow him is correct imo, i know i'll go read wherever he winds up

Vox tucking sucks balls

"Post-text" just seems to mean "literally not text like videos and stuff" which isn't the revelation I ws thinking it might be

Hey remember the "hypertext" craze?

hire pareene so I don't have to look at salon anymore

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:52 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw hes goin w greenwald

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:53 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ smartest most psychic ilx poster

close enough!

bullseye

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/03/stat-happy-news-ignores-journalism-s-need-for-narrative.html

i think there is room for legitimate criticism of "data journalism" being written primarily by people who can't write, but this ain't it

http://i.imgur.com/4df05Jx.png

interesting choice of words

idgi

nobody blogs anymore people storystream their livejournals

lj drama

wtf

http://i.imgur.com/c3obU8M.png

lol

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447

http://i.imgur.com/dcP9XfR.jpg

welcome to the world baby blogger

lol

tbh i love matt yglesias

http://gawker.com/please-stop-showing-your-thumbs-on-social-media-1674295275

Overall, the thumb is round and stumpy, as if at one point in Yglesias's life it was mechanically compacted. It is openly unpleasant.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_10/are_democrats_complacent_going058182.php

excerpt:

After reading Matt Yglesias’ cri de coeur against “complacent” Democrats who don’t seem to be aware the Donkey Party is a presidential loss away from a total conservative makeover of the country, my basic reaction is that Matt needs to get out more. The whole premise of his Vox piece is that Democrats either don’t know or don’t care that they are at a historic disadvantage at the state government level and have little chance of—or a “plan” for—regaining control of the U.S. House, either. The Democrats I talk to seem pretty aware of the situation, if perhaps too sanguine about their long-term prospects (thanks to faith in demographics or doubt that the craziness rampant in the GOP will enable that party to pull of a trifecta).

But aside from Matt’s questionable assessment of Democratic self-knowledge, his hypothesis also suffers a bit from the assumption that the party’s downballot problems can be dispelled by more effort or some undefined “plan.”

the yglesias post that is replying to is a banger IMO

The GOP might be in chaos, but Democrats are in a torpor.

http://i.imgur.com/dvoWIpH.gif

ezra koenig

matt le blanc