Ye Cannot Serve Blog and Mammon

Stephen L. Miller: Substack can no longer lay claim to being “New Media” when they have turned their platform over to the most prominent partisan voices of old media personalities from the Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC. If Substack wants to become the platform of the media it helped destroy in the first place, that’s certainly their choice. However, what made Substack special in the beginning, and what made it thrive, was that it was a model that stood up to those very same institutions, which have largely been discredited by dwindling audiences and a lack of credibility. It didn’t cave to pressure and accusations of being a transphobic platform that also gladly hosted Neo Nazis. Now, Substack is throwing lavish invite-only parties for those very same people. The frontier is attractive precisely because it is rough, disreputable, under-monetized, and therefore not yet swarmed by credentialed strivers. Once it becomes viable as a career ladder, the ladder-climbers arrive. They bring…