TIL media twitter has always been “undignified, but fascinating”

I’ve been a lil outta sync (I mean could you tell when I dusted off a 2017 link for yesterday) around day-to-day media stuff while trying to keep up with the general movement of the world, but here are some interesting things I’ve read recently and found worthwhile:

1. This part-obituary, part-genesis story of Media Twitter as we know it from Joshua Benton …