This fits nicely with a few corollary bits about the substackification of media, which seems to largely reward opinion havers and take providers (“analysts”) over what the rest of the media offers, like actual reporting. It’s hard to find a day or a week to do much of that reporting when you don’t have colleagues to put the news out that day.

I mean this less critically than I’m coming off here — I love a good take and subscribe to far too many substacks. Back when Yglesias was getting his start, there was this dream that blogs and new media were going to empower citizen journalists (remember “platypus” reporters??) to rise up and speak truth to power without gate keepers. Two decades later, we’ve mostly got David Brooks or Tom Friedman as a service.