Bokhari: Establishment Media Is Terrified of Substack, for Good Reason

The establishment media continues to publish a slow but unrelenting stream of negative stories about Substack, the subscription newsletter-blogging service that has drawn a number of prominent writers and journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias, and Andrew Sullivan, away from traditional publications.

Substack is “the site that Trump could run to next,” according to the title of a podcast from the New York Times’ Kara Swisher. “Substack is a dangerous direct threat to traditional news media,” wrote UCLA professor and “content moderation” (internet censorship) expert Sarah Roberts, in a viral Twitter thread. And, in a piece titled “The Tenuous Promise of the Substack Dream,” far-left tech magazine Wired extracted a promise from Substack’s CEO that he is “not out to kill what’s left of big media.”

The establishment media faces an existential threat from a genuinely free and open internet, which is why they spent four years creating the “disinformation” panic so that Big Tech companies would install them as “fact checkers” and suppress their competition. It’s also why they’re demanding that Congress allow them to form cartels to pressure the tech companies, as part of the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,” a bill with an exceptionally dishonest title.

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