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# What if failure is the plan?
- URL: https://werd.io/what-if-failure-is-the-plan/
- Published: 2022-12-05T23:51:52.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-05T23:51:52.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“For an anchor point, consider the collapse of local news journalism. The myth that this was caused by Craigslist or Google drives me bonkers. Throughout the 80s and 90s, private equity firms and hedge funds gobbled up local news enterprises to extract their real estate. They didn’t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate that they could develop.” [#Twitter](https://werd.io/tag/Twitter)

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