Duhay, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a dangerous idea for you.

As the legacy media struggles to maintain trust, maintain market share, as more and more

young people get their news from scrolling, I was going to say mindlessly, but that sounds a bit

pejorative, doesn't it?

Scrolling actively and delightedly and delightfully through the labyrinth of their social media

feeds.

We are kind of doomed to a fate in which everybody will inhabit their own social media news bubble,

tailored for them by algorithms designed entirely

to keep us all, quote unquote, engaged, to keep us clicking, to keep us scrolling, to keep us

watching, to keep us liking, to keep us commenting, things that either pander to what we already

believe or demonize what we don't already believe.

That is the sort of dystopian possible fate of our information ecosystem

in the absence of gatekeepers like big public broadcasters that everybody tunes into at the same time every evening

to find out what's going on in the world

from an old straight white male talking at them.

Substack is trying to do something different, and today's episode is an interview with the two

co-founders of Substack, Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie.

I've just come off the back, as I'm sure you are no doubt aware,

having been bludgeoned over the head with it for the past few weeks, a world tour.

Substack's first ever substack live around the world podcast marathon. Lots of great content.

So if you've been asleep at the wheel, then go back over the past a dozen odd episodes.

And almost every single one, I think, is worth listening to.

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