New Yorker review of Musk hagiography says Twitter "has American journalism in a choke hold."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review

Journalists are choking themselves. It is their decision. Musk must chortle every day as he watches journalists bend over to support his business.

They could leave, and take their audiences with them, if they wanted to. They don't.

They're doing this to themselves. Inertia, amoral calculation, and timidity are weapons of self-destruction.

How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain

Jill Lepore reviews Walter Isaacson’s new book, about a founder of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of the social-media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The New Yorker

@dangillmor

Everyday they suffer some new abuse or deprivation, their lives become more and more misersble, and they just keep tweeting. It's a syndrome very familiar to hard core drug users and alcoholics.

#TwitterAddiction

@mastodonmigration Kind of like people who stick with Trump