Send us a text I’m Gen X. Which means I didn’t grow up reading about history. I watched it happen live. On CNN. On Channel One. In classrooms where world events interrupted algebra, and cable news ran nonstop in the background of our lives. At the same time, I was learning journalism. The difference between fact and opinion. Why sources matter. Why a free press, trusted expertise, and respect for evidence are essential to a healthy democracy. Growing up in suburban Texas while listening to NW...
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Send us a text I’m Gen X. Which means I didn’t grow up reading about history. I watched it happen live. On CNN. On Channel One. In classrooms where world events interrupted algebra, and cable news ran nonstop in the background of our lives. At the same time, I was learning journalism. The difference between fact and opinion. Why sources matter. Why a free press, trusted expertise, and respect for evidence are essential to a healthy democracy. Growing up in suburban Texas while listening to NW...
The Death of Gatekeepers: A Media Origin Story from MTV to Algorithms
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind
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The Death of Gatekeepers: A Media Origin Story from MTV to Algorithms
Send us a text This episode is my media origin story. I grew up in an analog world where music and media still had gatekeepers. MTV broke artists. Radio decided what you heard. Recording studios were expensive, and working in media was a profession you trained for, studied, and slowly earned your way into. Then everything changed. In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind, I trace my path from high school journalism and tech theater, to radio, to early streaming at Yahoo, and into today’...
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind
Send us a text I’m Gen X. Which means I didn’t grow up reading about history. I watched it happen live. On CNN. On Channel One. In classrooms where world events interrupted algebra, and cable news ran nonstop in the background of our lives. At the same time, I was learning journalism. The difference between fact and opinion. Why sources matter. Why a free press, trusted expertise, and respect for evidence are essential to a healthy democracy. Growing up in suburban Texas while listening to NW...
