Taylor Lorentz reports in the New York Times, that
people get paid big bucks for innocent snapchat videos that go video. Paying for trick videos is seen as a way to
compete with Tik Tok?
I don’t have a Snapchat account because I don’t have
use for ephemeral content. But I must
say that the concept is surprising. This
link came from her Substack account but was published in the NYTimes.
Which brings up another point: some people are saying
that Subtstack will destroy conventional journalism, as first noted in a
notorious tweetstorm by Sarah Roberts, as analyzed now by Matt Taibbi. .
Here, Glenn Greenwald weighs in from his own Substack
with his own take on Ryan Broderick.
My own position as a “commentator-journalist” as my
second life grew starting in the late 90s (with my first book) would come into
the discussion, as I have written before, when I speak about “gratuitous publication”. But what’s noticeable here is the
protectionism and turf protection, and the idea of “skin in the game”. I would need to have more focus on an expertise area (maybe out of my music) to make Substack work for me. (Update: March 24, Intelligence in New York Mag: "Substack is a scam the same that way all media is", showing why unions won't work, This sort of individualism replacing group activism is not sustainable?)
Katie Robertson and Rachel Adams report on the
acquittal of (conventionally employed) journalist Andrea Sohouri when she was filming
police in Iowa at a legitimately anti-racist protest. You can film the police, but she was apparently
accused of refusing to disperse. She had
press credentials and claimed this was her job.
I can’t really make such a claim if caught in such a situation, although
the pandemic has made me careful anyway.
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