I won't miss new Gawker at all. No surprise they couldn't make money peddling the exact same cowardly wokesnark as everyone else in the NY media in-crowd. As Freddie DeBoer has pointed out over and over, stick your neck out a little bit and think for yourself if you think people should be paying to read your thoughts.
“The New York Post posted an historic result – it formally reported a profit, possibly the first since Alexander Hamilton founded the paper, and we are now on a pathway to increasing profit contribution"
Another big development is that journalism has less gatekeepers now. You used to have to be hired or commissioned by an editor to write pieces. But through the rise of blogging and sites like this one, anyone can make a newsletter and build a following.
"What comes next is more straightforward: produce good work and get people to pay for it." At the end of the day this is the answer.
Echoing Unset's comment, if I want to read the standard boilerplate for what passes for liberalism / progressivism, there's no shortage of sources, all of them boring, repetitive, tiresome, and $0.00. My neighbor upstairs, obviously born in the Bronze Age, gets a paper copy of the NYT - I get my Elite Sanctioned messaging by glancing at the front cover in the lobby on my way to work.
Even the Hellgate site, which I bookmarked, has an article on 'bail reform'. In it, Assemblyman Dinowitz peppers the upstate Republican with demands for granular data on crime, and won't entertain the upstate Republican's assertions without it.
Yet, it's easy to find data to show that gun control is a failure, data showing the policies of the DAs in San Francisco and LA are abject failures ... data that NYC is on the same path ... but this data is ignored, or the tired 'correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation' crowd comes out of the woodwork because reasons and feelings. They tell me cash bail is 'racist' and getting rid of bail will help fix the absurd and broken justice system. I'm not buying it - literally and figuratively.
My point is it's easy to find the dull, Regime Approved Current Thing. I'm supposed to pay for outlets that tell me billions going to Ukraine under this administration is "good" (the D's are good don't you know), anything critical of Pfizer and the gov't officials in its thrall are "good", and anyone with a differing opinion is a Conspiracy Theorist. These people tell me that the Twitter Files are a 'nothingburger' and should be ignored. And they all use the same terminology.
I'll pay for the Greenwalds, Taibbis, Barkans, Strausses, Doombergs and deBoers of the world. I won't pay for idiotic, repetitive and cloddish Corporate Progressive emptiness under the aegis of once proud liberal outlets. Apparently, neither will millions of others.
Good piece, although I wouldn’t include Buzzfeed as a failure. They’ve been around since 20006 and are still standing. That’d be a pretty good run even in the pre-digital era
I won't miss new Gawker at all. No surprise they couldn't make money peddling the exact same cowardly wokesnark as everyone else in the NY media in-crowd. As Freddie DeBoer has pointed out over and over, stick your neck out a little bit and think for yourself if you think people should be paying to read your thoughts.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-york-post-profit
“The New York Post posted an historic result – it formally reported a profit, possibly the first since Alexander Hamilton founded the paper, and we are now on a pathway to increasing profit contribution"
Another big development is that journalism has less gatekeepers now. You used to have to be hired or commissioned by an editor to write pieces. But through the rise of blogging and sites like this one, anyone can make a newsletter and build a following.
"What comes next is more straightforward: produce good work and get people to pay for it." At the end of the day this is the answer.
Echoing Unset's comment, if I want to read the standard boilerplate for what passes for liberalism / progressivism, there's no shortage of sources, all of them boring, repetitive, tiresome, and $0.00. My neighbor upstairs, obviously born in the Bronze Age, gets a paper copy of the NYT - I get my Elite Sanctioned messaging by glancing at the front cover in the lobby on my way to work.
Even the Hellgate site, which I bookmarked, has an article on 'bail reform'. In it, Assemblyman Dinowitz peppers the upstate Republican with demands for granular data on crime, and won't entertain the upstate Republican's assertions without it.
Yet, it's easy to find data to show that gun control is a failure, data showing the policies of the DAs in San Francisco and LA are abject failures ... data that NYC is on the same path ... but this data is ignored, or the tired 'correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation' crowd comes out of the woodwork because reasons and feelings. They tell me cash bail is 'racist' and getting rid of bail will help fix the absurd and broken justice system. I'm not buying it - literally and figuratively.
My point is it's easy to find the dull, Regime Approved Current Thing. I'm supposed to pay for outlets that tell me billions going to Ukraine under this administration is "good" (the D's are good don't you know), anything critical of Pfizer and the gov't officials in its thrall are "good", and anyone with a differing opinion is a Conspiracy Theorist. These people tell me that the Twitter Files are a 'nothingburger' and should be ignored. And they all use the same terminology.
I'll pay for the Greenwalds, Taibbis, Barkans, Strausses, Doombergs and deBoers of the world. I won't pay for idiotic, repetitive and cloddish Corporate Progressive emptiness under the aegis of once proud liberal outlets. Apparently, neither will millions of others.
Good piece, although I wouldn’t include Buzzfeed as a failure. They’ve been around since 20006 and are still standing. That’d be a pretty good run even in the pre-digital era