Speaking of everyone wanting free content, I have subscribed to a bunch of substacks and newsletters (and Talking Points Memo) which is now my go-to news source) because I trust the people who run them not to bullshit me. The legacy media is dying, because they got blindsided by the internet and have STILL not learned how to make money in an online world, without charging for subscriptions, and they are being strangled by their penchant for both-sidesing everything (and presenting things in the best light for their uber-rich capitalist owners). The kids are not down with that.
And to tie it in with one of your other points, the New York Times has been awful on trans issues in general, and trans kids in particular. One of the states the passed the most draconian transphobic legislation cited the Times' reporting (not opinion, mind you, but reporting) as justification. The paper has consistently pushed the views of the "just asking questions," fascist lollipop guild (Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, Jesse Singal, Matt Walsh, etc).
Substack brings me Judd Legum, Barry Friedman, Weldon Burger, Roy Edroso, Greg Olear, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jonathan Katz, Matt Stoller, Jeff Tiedrich, David Farrier, John Ganz, Shikha Dalmia, Radley Balko and, of course, Heather Cox Richardson.
And Phillips P. O'Brien for Ukraine stuff.
But it overflows my mailbox. i can't keep up with it all, not even close. Plus I check Memeorandum and Twitter daily for breaking news. And keep 2-3 dozen browser tabs open trying to process and distill it all.
On the days I get to all the Substacks, that can be depressing: all these great writers finely crafting and then my lumpy blurbs.
I just checked my emails today, and realized I had unseen ones going back two weeks. And the weather's been so nice for the past week I've been outdoors most of the time. I can't keep up!
Great job, dude. Some typographical notes: "Pirro" became "Mirro" twice in the first paragraph. I think Jeanine is more of a bullshit artist than a modern artist.
Speaking of everyone wanting free content, I have subscribed to a bunch of substacks and newsletters (and Talking Points Memo) which is now my go-to news source) because I trust the people who run them not to bullshit me. The legacy media is dying, because they got blindsided by the internet and have STILL not learned how to make money in an online world, without charging for subscriptions, and they are being strangled by their penchant for both-sidesing everything (and presenting things in the best light for their uber-rich capitalist owners). The kids are not down with that.
And to tie it in with one of your other points, the New York Times has been awful on trans issues in general, and trans kids in particular. One of the states the passed the most draconian transphobic legislation cited the Times' reporting (not opinion, mind you, but reporting) as justification. The paper has consistently pushed the views of the "just asking questions," fascist lollipop guild (Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, Jesse Singal, Matt Walsh, etc).
Substack brings me Judd Legum, Barry Friedman, Weldon Burger, Roy Edroso, Greg Olear, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jonathan Katz, Matt Stoller, Jeff Tiedrich, David Farrier, John Ganz, Shikha Dalmia, Radley Balko and, of course, Heather Cox Richardson.
And Phillips P. O'Brien for Ukraine stuff.
But it overflows my mailbox. i can't keep up with it all, not even close. Plus I check Memeorandum and Twitter daily for breaking news. And keep 2-3 dozen browser tabs open trying to process and distill it all.
On the days I get to all the Substacks, that can be depressing: all these great writers finely crafting and then my lumpy blurbs.
Ah well. And offline things are even crazier.
I just checked my emails today, and realized I had unseen ones going back two weeks. And the weather's been so nice for the past week I've been outdoors most of the time. I can't keep up!
Great job, dude. Some typographical notes: "Pirro" became "Mirro" twice in the first paragraph. I think Jeanine is more of a bullshit artist than a modern artist.
Will edit and correct. Thanks Edward.
I don’t know who Wakeman is . But he is hilarious! Thanks for the belly laugh after all the bad news of the day .
The band 'Yes' was who Wakeman fronted.