Twitter Became Way Too Important to Journalists. Let It Die.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyElon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has played out in the media for months now. It’s one of those stories that won’t go away. After riding into town on a high horse, talking about freedom of speech and eliminating bias, Musk has proceeded to wield power seemingly based only on his own whims, banning accounts that mock him and setting inscrutable rules for what is and is not permissible.These actions have been relentlessly covered by the news media, usually with howls of angst.The machinations of one of the world’s richest men will always be of public interest, and Twitter has been a profoundly influential social network for many years now. But part of the reason that such an immense amount has been written and said about this story is that our media class—our writers, pundits, and journalists—is made up of obsessive Twitter users, the kind of people who check the site habitually and ritualistically throughout their day. And that’s why the problems revealed by Musk’s ownership are bigger than Musk.Read more at The Daily Beast.