End of Journalism

 

It's All Just Displacement

Blue checkmarks are mourning bad careers in a 

broken industry

Freddie deBoer 49 min ago Displacement - Displacement is a psychological defense  mechanism in which a person redirects a negative  emotion from its original source to a less threatening recipient.  A classic example of the defense is displaced  aggression. If a person is angry but cannot  direct their anger toward the source without  consequences, they might "take out" their  anger on a person or thing that poses less of a risk.  Media Twitter does not hate Substack because it’s  pretending to be a platform when it’s a publisher;  they don’t hate it because it’s filled with anti-woke  white guys; they don’t hate it because of harassment  or any such thing. I don’t think they really hate it at all.  Substack is a small and ultimately not-very-relevant  outpost in a vastly larger industry; they may not like it  but it’s not important enough for them to hate it. What  do they hate? They hate where their industry is and they  hate where they are within their industry. But that’s  a big problem that they don’t feel like they can solve.  If you feel you can’t get mad at the industry that’s impoverishing you,  it’s much easier to get mad at the people who you feel are  unjustly succeeding in that industry. Trying to cancel Glenn Greenwald (again)  because he criticizes the media harshly? Trying to tarnish  Substack’s reputation so that cool, paid-up writer types  leave it and the bad types like me get kicked off? That they  can maybe do. Confronting their industry’s future with  open eyes? Too scary, especially for people who  were raised to see success as their birthright and  have suddenly found that their degrees and their  witheringly dry one-liners do not help them when  the rent comes due. Things are bad, folks: here Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman Double yikes, if advertising $$ is your thing. March 12th 2021 113 Retweets387 Likes Further Reading: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-all-just-displacement