{"id":121097,"date":"2025-05-13T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121097"},"modified":"2025-05-13T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:59:00","slug":"13-05-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121097","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>You Are Not the Media<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Alana Newhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s good news<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Alex Woz<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

More than a decade ago, I gave a speech in Cleveland. During the Q&A, a man in the back asked me what I thought of the then-emerging Iran deal, and I hemmed and hawed my way through a bullshit answer that said nothing. As I was leaving, he approached me. \u201cListen,\u201d he said firmly. \u201cI\u2019m a dentist. It\u2019s my job to wake up in the morning and fix people\u2019s teeth. It\u2019s your job to tell me what to think about the Iran deal or Greenpeace or whatever. If my patient\u2019s teeth end up falling out of their mouth, they\u2019ll find another dentist. If your ideas about the world don\u2019t help me better understand and navigate it, I\u2019ll find another magazine. But that\u2019s your job, and you have to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I thought about my dentist friend the day after Trump\u2019s reelection, when Elon Musk posted on X, \u201cYou are the media now.\u201d It isn\u2019t the richest man in the world\u2019s most liked post\u2014that honor still belongs to 2022\u2019s \u201cNext I\u2019m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in\u201d\u2014but, with 1.2 million likes and 107 million views, it\u2019s up there.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I wouldn\u2019t enter a rocket-making competition against Musk or a baby-making one or a who-can-survive-on-less-sleep contest. He\u2019s even been to Auschwitz more recently than I have. In fact, this isn\u2019t about him at all. This is about you, and making sure you haven\u2019t been confused by recent events.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thankfully, neither are the people who had been for decades. Those individuals and outlets\u2014newspaper, magazine, and television brands that collectively controlled public opinion for decades\u2014have been dethroned, and not a minute too soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So, who is the media now? Are we all meant to sit on X all day looking at videos from the latest hurricane to know whether we like our president or not? Is it now your responsibility to curate your TikTok feed so you can know what to think about taxes? Social media is a miracle, but when it comes to enlightenment, it turns out that you get what you pay for. In exchange for their zero dollars, Americans have been dropped\u2014gradually, and then seemingly all at once\u2014into an ocean of free propaganda and mental confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The media\u2019s job is to mediate, which in this case means forming a usable and trustworthy connection between people and the world at large. Doing that for yourself is like being one\u2019s own therapist; it just doesn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You are not the media, because the media\u2019s job is to\u00a0mediate<\/em>, which in this case means forming a usable and trustworthy connection between people and the world at large. Doing that for yourself is like being one\u2019s own therapist; it just doesn\u2019t work. And while your ability to see that world more directly through your phone certainly tweaks the old definition of our profession, it doesn\u2019t undo it. If anything, between government-sponsored spin, social media engagement farming, and deep fakes, there\u2019s an even greater need for people whose job it is to wake up every day and tell you the truth\u2014and before it\u2019s too late for you to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For 16 years, Tablet\u2019s central feature has been our ability to observe the world clearly\u2014a skill that gave us a spooky ability to see around corners, which was especially useful as legacy outlets proved uninterested in acknowledging, let alone interpreting, obvious realities that people could see with their own eyes. We then took advantage of the web\u2019s new instruments of accessibility and speed to bring that foresight to as many people as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But now the internet is dying, in large part because it creates audiences that are broad but shallow\u2014a majority of which these days are bots, driven by AI. On internet platforms, you may indeed feel like the media, but you are mainly its food.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By liberating you from the responsibility of being your own media, we are freeing you up to be something much more important and, frankly, much more radical in this moment: human.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alana Newhouse<\/strong> is the editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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