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To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

talkingpointsmemo.comThe Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech BusinessI want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...

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Big nostalgia. Blogging was...it was doing stuff. I DID stuff for my community (if nothing else, showing others they weren't alone in the political desert). I don't want to go back to doing it now, but it was a heady, fun, interesting time. I miss regularly writing!

I say this as a TPM subscriber and a resident of what you’d probably call a small town, but is what passes for a city in my area. I wonder if it would be practical for local journalism outfits to offer a unified subscription model. “For $2/mo more, you also get access to state government blog x”

I guess I wouldn't say it's a sin that one group committed so much. More like a mistake/misunderstanding that was built into the original rise of digital media (2005-10) that ensured the later crash and destruction. using original sin as turn of phrase here.