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Jun 25Liked by David Weir

The understanding Rosetta had, the trust you developed in one another, and that almost poetic tolerance that is required to run a strong media organization, is rare in today’s managers. They’re too narrow, formulaic and risk averse

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People need to talk with each other, not just fall into factions, for any culture to thrive.

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Rossetto, whom I knew briefly and disliked from the get go, called himself a libertarian, but unlike the vast majority of libertarians, either on the left or right, supported not only the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, but thought it should have occurred in 1991, under Bush Sr, views he held long after the disastrous war ended, killing hundreds of thousands. And for what? I never saw him as a libertarian but as a right-winger who thought that corporations could do no wrong.

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