Peter Bale - curated media, journalism, and related technology news - Issue #20
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz on Tuesday launched a content site called Future, after months of anticipation.
I sort of get this but also mistrust it initially. As Ben says below it needs more disclosures and to decide if it is "journalism".
Here's what my mate Ben Evans thought of it
This will just be grist to the mill of the station and I am a bit surprised the brands did it so early and lamely. However, I have also noticed that GB News is not really doing what Andrew Neil said it would and avoid disinformation and conspiracy theories. There seems to be a lot of that.
One of those lists but a sensible one it seems.
John Birt describes episode to MPs as ‘one of the biggest crimes in the history of broadcasting’
I found the revisionism of Tony Hall (Lord Hall) and the rather pathetic line that his 35-years of alleged public service should not be judged by the Bashir affair to be wholly unconvincing. Birt less so. It's an appalling set of lack of judgments from start to finish.
I know from experience that Project Veritas are deeply unpleasant people and it looks as though this poor person has just killed her own career.
Plus Putin cynicism and Netanyahu's fall from and lack of grace.
Just to share a bulletin I do each week for a New Zealand site. I focused this one on the George Packer book extract in The Atlantic which is about the tribes, or as he puts it, the four narratives prevailing in America. Also a bit on why Putin really is a bit of a shit and so is Netanyahu.