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My New Band Is: Slate Star Clusterfuck

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On journalism, ideas, "ideas", free speech, and tech.

(By Elizabeth Spiers.) A while ago, I did a Q&A with a venture capitalist who had formerly worked in media. The conversation took place on Clubhouse, the explosively growing audio-driven social network. The topic was the tech industry and journalism, and the discussion had been precipitated by a few weeks of turmoil on the Internet about the supposed antagonism between the industry and the press, embodied primarily by very public arguments involving New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz and tech entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan. I was asked to participate in the Q&A because I…

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