'There’s a lot of people just trying to hold on to their jobs'
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Dec 28, 2022 • 32M
'There’s a lot of people just trying to hold on to their jobs'
A conversation with essayist, author and podcaster Meghan Daum
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Tara Henley
Conversations with heterodox authors and journalists from around the world, asking the questions that are not being asked.
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Throughout the month of December, here on Lean Out, I’ve been having conversations with the independent journalists that I admire.
Today, I’m happy to welcome back to the podcast a writer and thinker whose work kept me sane during the pandemic.
Meghan Daum is an essayist and author. She’s a former columnist for the L.A. Times, host of The Unspeakable podcast, and with Sarah Haider, co-host of the podcast A Special Place In Hell.
Meghan Daum is my guest — for Lean Out’s last episode of 2022. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.
'There’s a lot of people just trying to hold on to their jobs'
Regarding Mehgan's comments on the Twitter files: I think it has to be pointed out that they are not just about confirming that shadow banning is actually a thing. The US government, via the FBI, DHS, DOJ, etc have been shaping the discourse throughout the world, essentially curtailing the 1st amendment rights of Americans, using big tech. It is not only Twitter - all the big tech companies were all talking to each other, making sure that they were all censoring the same things. The military was using Twitter as well. How is this not "interesting"?
Noah Smith had this to say about The Internet wants to be fragmented - that is we are moving away from large social groups (twitter FB) and back towards small social groups. Think how many of your friends are active on FB vs private chats on Whatsapp or Signal.
Point 2: media (print music TV etc) has always been a winner take all. I read somewhere that 50,000 albums are released a year yet only a few reach commercial success. Substack is the same, 100s of them but only a few make all the bucks.
Finally when I first heard about Tara joining substack I thought, yeah another CBC hack that won't make it, man oh man was I wrong. I love her podcast, no idea where she finds so many interesting people and unlike Joe Rogan she's not 4 hours long
Keep up the good work!