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              Regular reminder that the media industry is so afraid of understanding how the money gets made that they'll give that capacity to anyone.
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            90s: The web? Let someone else fill the white space. 00s: Ad servers? Let programatic run ads. 10s: Web ads? Let Medium figure it out.
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          It's like the entire industry is Charlie Brown. We keep falling on our face, turning around & asking Lucy for more.
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        And each time we give more away. 1st: space on our pages. 2nd: control over the user experience. Now even our HOSTING.
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      Is there anything the news industry isn't willing to give away rather than think about how to run a freaking business?
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    What must the convo at ThinkProgress have been? "We can't figure out how to make money. Medium will figure it out!"
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      How can you remain independent if your hosting is free in exchange for unspecified money making methods in the future?
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        What leg do you have to stand on if Medium comes up to you tomorrow and says 'Do this or we'll take it all away'?
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          And don't act like that shit isn't something that could happen. It's EXACTLY what Twitter did with its APIs.
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            What happens when Medium puts "Sponsored Content From The Church of Scientology" next to your article?
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              GDIT. Can we not think past the immediate future of the next few years?
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                The ethics of journalism extend to the ethics of the business of journalism!
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                  If we don't have the capacity to guarantee that we are operating ethically we have no capacity to show our readers that we are ethical.
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                    I guess just keep hoping real hard that THIS will be the partner who actually cares about readers and journalism. That has worked so well :/
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                      The media industry: just keep running away from dealing with the business side. And don't look down super geniuses.


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