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Jérémie Lumbroso's avatar

The belief that a President needs to be a leading actor in a movie, comes from living in a country in which the media covers everything like a reality show.

I can't tell if you are being serious or ironic, but if it's the former, please understand that we're in a crisis: It's sort of like how everybody was downloading music back in the era of Napster, before the move to the streaming model — and the industry was crashing. It's the same thing here with news/media: As the business model is changing, everybody is becoming a reality show host — until we pivot to the right financial model.

It could appear that Substack could be that model, but The Bulwark's alarmist tendencies suggests maybe not: Even if they are user-funded, a model in which they fully depend on subscriptions means they are incentivized to bump out content and to keep everyone on the hook with alarm.

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