Expert criticizes journalism's digital barons from @nytmag
Journalist Tina Brown expresses her frustration with wealthy individuals, or 'digital barons,' who purchase media organizations and believe their wealth gives them expertise in journalism. After being prompted by an interviewer, she argues that these owners are disrespectful to the profession, contrasting their arrogance with her own humility in fields she doesn't understand. She concludes by stating her deep respect for journalism and her disappointment in seeing it treated as a mere commodity.
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I am so bored, frankly, with sort of the uber rich thinking that just because they're rich, they know everything about everything because they don't. I am wondering what your take is on this current media moment where we're seeing a lot of very fraught relationships between media organizations and people with money. The LA Times, The Washington Post. I just wonder, why do you think people like this get involved in journalism? I wish that they would learn something about journalism before they le
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