<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Mitrailleuse]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://mitrailleuse.net]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[J. Arthur Bloom]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://mitrailleuse.net/author/jarthurbloom/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Lessons in media, by Anil&nbsp;Dash]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/540889010735185921">trolled</a> Anil Dash on Friday after he <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/540889010735185921">fretted</a> about journalists calling the New Republic purge a &#8220;massacre&#8221; and other tropes that suggest &#8220;violence.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what he, uh, learned from the experience:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I was trying to understand why a Daily Caller editor told me to delete my Twitter account after I criticized hyperbolic reactions about <a href="https://twitter.com/tnr">@TNR</a></p>
<p>— Anil Dash (@anildash) <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/540899762170777600">December 5, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>And I realized that to folks running these outlets, to admit that *any* of them are irrelevant to most people is to admit they *all* are.</p>
<p>— Anil Dash (@anildash) <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/540900007537569792">December 5, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>
Doesn&#8217;t mean they can&#8217;t do good work, or that they don&#8217;t contribute to the conversation. Just that they&#8217;re not the center of the world.</p>
<p>— Anil Dash (@anildash) <a href="https://twitter.com/anildash/status/540900318201278464">December 5, 2014</a>
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<p>He must not know the Daily Caller very well.</p>
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