Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution
There&#x27;s a bizarre focus on Larry Page buying it for whatever reason. Sounds almost like a plea.<p>But hey, let&#x27;s imagine that&#x27;s possible - why do we want Google guy to run Twitter, too. What does that solve? Google has already tried and &quot;failed&quot; in the social area, Page buying it doesn&#x27;t strike me as some kind of panacea.<p>What this election cycle has proven to me is that the old media and rapidly more and more of the new media censors things they or various friends of theirs don&#x27;t agree with, and that doesn&#x27;t sound like a path to a healthy society to me. The media&#x27;s problem isn&#x27;t about being &quot;Old&quot;, it&#x27;s about trust, and expecting people who have built the modern landscape to take a different path seems naive.<p>There&#x27;s no evidence that modern social or political discourse is made better by Twitter. Some people seem convinced that Twitter shouldn&#x27;t just die as is natural. Why?<p>Twitter strikes me as a platform where the existing media and celebrities pat themselves on the back. Of course media would think it such an important tool, but the average person doesn&#x27;t get value from it unless we really like to hear Donald Trump&#x27;s unfiltered thoughts at 3 AM. Personally, don&#x27;t find that especially compelling.<p>Edit:<p><i>The country’s pre-eminent newspapers, including this one, have long been controlled by families who have understood that the press is not just an ordinary industry, but a civic calling. Twitter is not yet treated as hallowed, but it has the makings of an institution that could be.</i><p>I find this in particular hilariously out of touch. At least we&#x27;re now admitting that families control the country, but let&#x27;s not act like what the press has been doing for some time now is is anything like a civic calling. This election wouldn&#x27;t be a complete disaster if the media had been doing its job instead of entertaining or pandering. If that&#x27;s the standard that the media is holding itself to, then Twitter doesn&#x27;t have a high bar to clear.