ANALYSIS: TRUE. “In recent weeks, Andrew Sullivan, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald and now Matthew Yglesias have all left secure roles to pursue their own newsletters via this platform. So, of course, it’s inevitable that those who feel threatened by these moves will next strike at the common denominator — the platform itself. To rob these writers of their credibility and potency, the tactic will be to undermine the platform they’ve used to achieve financial, moral and intellectual independence. . . . Never fall into the mistake of assuming any of this is about principle or journalism. It’s about power. Independent writers increasingly at odds with existing journalistic institutions are taking back their audiences, and their autonomy. And cultural gatekeepers struggling to maintain their principles and their relevance in the current intellectual hothouse are using whatever tricks they have at hand to maintain their traditional role and authority. This is all very predictable.”

Plus:

Those pushing the people like Sullivan and Yglesias out of their newsrooms shouldn’t waste their time trashing the platforms that allow for the very independence that they too might one day cherish. Instead, they ought be cheering. The rats are gone! The ships of established media institutions are now unsullied by the gutter-sniffing stain of wrong opinion. The noble survivors are now liberated to ascend the ranks, anointed anew as if by the angels on high.

Well, here we are now. Entertain us.

Heh. Smells like Woke Spirit. And you know what happens when you get woke. . . .