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#351: In a rare interview, former DoJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter explains why Big Tech has become dangerous to our way of life...

I want to begin with a hat tip to my Future Media podcast co-host

Alan Chapell

for landing an exclusive interview for the ages… 🫡 This is one not to be missed.

It’s now clear that the fate of publishing and news will not be decided by well-intentioned editors in newsrooms or the suited n’ booted execs in the boardroom.

They’ve been out-gunned, out-run, out-thought, out-manoeuvred, and out-spent by Big Tech - and exposed as strategically handcuffed by a need for short-term wins.

Fortunately, someone else has our back.

The fix has already been nine tenths done by regulators and judges - and none has had more impact than Jonathan Kanter, the ex-antitrust chief at the US Department of Justice.

History will remember that it wasn’t 20 years of whining by indignant newspaper chiefs that finally got Google’s ass whipped in court.

It was Kanter’s energy and leadership, which …