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The Last Archive

The Disruption Machine - ‘The Deadline’

The Last Archive

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This episode features an essay from Jill Lepore’s ‘The Deadline.’

Today on the show, Jill and Ben travel back in time to the disrupt-or-die 2010s to revisit Jill’s essay about the gospel of disruption. And afterwards, they talk about the consequences and challenges taking on controversial subjects, Ben’s time as a media disruptor, and Jill’s time as a temp worker.

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0:00.0

Pushkin. What comes to mind when you think of Amber Heard, a liar, a survivor, a narcissist?

0:17.6

The trial of Depffi Heard was a global phenomenon, but I want to know, was it a fair fight?

0:24.0

I'm Alexi Mostress, the host of Sweet Bobby and Hoeked.

0:27.6

In my new podcast, I'm investigating whether Amber Heard was the victim of an organized trolling campaign.

0:34.0

Just search for who trolled Amber wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.0

I once worked at a company that was trying to disrupt the news industry.

0:44.0

It did not end well for the industry or for the company.

0:47.0

But if you entered the workforce, circa 2013, as I did,

0:50.0

disruption was the word on everybody's lips.

0:53.6

Around that time, Jill Lepore got an assignment at the New Yorker

0:56.9

to dig a bit deeper into this earth-shaking theory.

0:59.9

And what she found led her to write

1:01.5

one of her most controversial essays,

1:03.7

The Disruption Machine.

1:05.2

Like, the place where I worked was being changed.

1:07.0

My favorite newspaper was being changed.

1:08.8

I'm sure, you know, anything else I read was being affected.

1:11.4

The publishing industry was affected. Public education was being affected, the published industry was being affected, hospitals, like it was everywhere, like disrupt or die.

1:20.0

And so then I said to the manager, okay, I am willing to write the piece.

1:24.0

Stick around afterwards for a conversation between me and Jill about how the essays age and the difference between being an old foggy and telling the truth.

1:32.0

From the Disruptor Die 2010s. an old foggy and telling the truth.

1:33.0

From the Disruptor Die 2010s, here's the Disruption Machine.

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