> Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories, but simply how many ads and subscriptions the stories can sell. And that's not the say they are motivated by greed - even worse, they are often motivated by missionary-like zeal to promote a cause.
Why do you believe Glenn is immune to this interest? The entire point of this is to promote his newsletter.
> I think Glenn hoped to create a media entity that regarded truth as the measure of merit of a story vs. how well it promoted a cause and ads/subscriptions. Now that the experiment has failed so obviously, good for him for moving on.
How do you know that "truth" is not the measure of merit for this story? You haven't read it; you're simply taking Glenn at his word.
Why do you believe Glenn is immune to this interest? The entire point of this is to promote his newsletter.
> I think Glenn hoped to create a media entity that regarded truth as the measure of merit of a story vs. how well it promoted a cause and ads/subscriptions. Now that the experiment has failed so obviously, good for him for moving on.
How do you know that "truth" is not the measure of merit for this story? You haven't read it; you're simply taking Glenn at his word.