Hacker News Reader

What a vapid essay. Full of stupid cliches, like "newsletters have existed since time immemorial". Long lists and descriptions not just of substacks, but even of other newsletters. Little to no discussion of why people prefer substacks to traditional media. But perhaps this is unfair. Perhaps the essay is an attempt to illustrate just that, by parodying the intellectual emptyness of traditional media.

View on HN

> intellectual emptyness of traditional media.

What do you mean by this? What does "traditional media" mean in this context? Anything that isn't self-published?

I think pretty clearly he's referring to the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies.

A specific term coined by Curtis Yarvin, "The Cathedral," comes to mind.

Ah yes, clearly he meant "the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies." I missed some obvious contextual clues there.

If the alternative to traditional media is more Moldbug, I'll pass.

I was just thinking how I prefer reading the Substacks I follow over articles like this one in the New Yorker

Reply on news.ycombinator.com