Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

732.541 - 756.074 Nilay Patel

led us to say we cannot be too dependent on these platforms that let us stand up a paywall like the week that you and i are speaking i don't begrudge anyone who's made different business decisions because a lot of them seemed rational at the time we were just too stubborn to be like yes we will take google's money to cover google and we can sleep at night and that's just that's a quirk like i i don't think that that is a replicable series of events