The Bari Weiss Strategy

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by toomim • 10 months ago

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benzible6• 9 months ago

Highly recommend John Oliver on Bari Weiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ

CharlesW4• 9 months ago

Seconded. I didn’t know anything about her but figured I should, and found it well worth the time.

cxr2• 9 months ago

How strange:

- by one's own admission, doesn't know much about the matter (EDIT: correction, "didn’t know anything"), and yet

- still feels confident enough to voice one's approval for a given information source positioning itself as informative

Suppose it's a bad source—filled with sleights of hand and intellectual dishonesty for cheap laughs, for example. How would you know?

rayiner6• 9 months ago

Folks like Oliver hate Weiss because her path to success—building a real business that meets a customer demand, generates revenue and employs people—is one that can’t be gifted upon someone based on their checking boxes and playing office politics. The weasel word here is “qualified.”

tptacek2• 9 months ago

This doesn't make any sense. No part of Oliver's career --- I'm not a fan --- has been based on checking boxes and "playing office politics".

oa335• 9 months ago

How and why did a news business that makes $18 million in revenue get valued at $150 million? That sort of multiple is typically only seen by high growth tech firms .

rayiner6• 9 months ago

In America, you can just do things and build things. Impressive.

CharlesW4• 9 months ago

You can also run a major network's news division with zero journalistic experience if you're a useful mouthpiece for the right people.

TimorousBestie3• 9 months ago

Yet I'm sure most of those investors are quite happy with this result, as some of them seem to be on Twitter, which really just proves that there is a whole other non-financial game that exists within the VC game. They are willing to back serious operators trying to change the culture, and even if you don't produce a meaningful return, there are other ways you can win (even in their eyes).

And where is capitalism? This is the 21th century equivalent of Palmerston paying off The London Times so that no one thinks too hard about why England would ever want to fight for the Confederacy.

delichon2• 9 months ago

A lot of her credibility and name recognition stem from her being popular at the NYT and then being ejected for ideological conflict. "First get famous as an archangel evicted from heaven" is not an easily replicable path to success.

TimorousBestie3• 9 months ago

She was not ejected, she left of her own volition.

delichon2• 9 months ago

True. She claims a hostile work environment. That's a sort of constructive ejection when it gets intense. A better word is ostracized.

The Bari Weiss Strategy

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