Thank you for this informative article. I have a Gannet paper where I live. They are struggling to continue to exist but they provide wonderful investigative journalism against a corrupt sheriff and more here in Flori-duh. Probably only read by us libs.
I’m a Banter subscriber. Been one for a few years. Will faithfully continue. I was thinking of subscribing to Substack. Now I’m not interested. To me, it’s a trust issue. I trust the Banter journalists. Substack’s answers to Ben’s questions are irresponsible. I don’t trust Substack.
"Elon Musk handing over Twitter files on the company’s vaccine content policies to rabid anti-vax conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson is a public health disaster."
I understand what you're saying. And those who do follow the science, get vaccinated, wear masks are put at risk and can get infected because of the fact many out there don't.
But.
The consequences of the public health disaster are largely (overwhelmingly?) hitting the anti-vax/MAGA crowd. They are the ones far more likely to die. And I'm leaning toward the view that the culling that results is overall a good thing for the rest of us.
"He is currently the 7th highest paid writer on the platform with “tens of thousands of paid subscribers”, just behind the man regarded as the leading source of Covid conspiracy theories, Dr. Joseph Mercola."
Also listed there just ahead of Berenson: Such reliable sources of accuracy as "TK News by Matt Taibbi" at #2 (appropriate number) and "Glenn Greenwald" at #6 (Mercola having bumped up a spot to #5).
Thank you for this informative article. I have a Gannet paper where I live. They are struggling to continue to exist but they provide wonderful investigative journalism against a corrupt sheriff and more here in Flori-duh. Probably only read by us libs.
I’m a Banter subscriber. Been one for a few years. Will faithfully continue. I was thinking of subscribing to Substack. Now I’m not interested. To me, it’s a trust issue. I trust the Banter journalists. Substack’s answers to Ben’s questions are irresponsible. I don’t trust Substack.
"Elon Musk handing over Twitter files on the company’s vaccine content policies to rabid anti-vax conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson is a public health disaster."
I understand what you're saying. And those who do follow the science, get vaccinated, wear masks are put at risk and can get infected because of the fact many out there don't.
But.
The consequences of the public health disaster are largely (overwhelmingly?) hitting the anti-vax/MAGA crowd. They are the ones far more likely to die. And I'm leaning toward the view that the culling that results is overall a good thing for the rest of us.
"He is currently the 7th highest paid writer on the platform with “tens of thousands of paid subscribers”, just behind the man regarded as the leading source of Covid conspiracy theories, Dr. Joseph Mercola."
Also listed there just ahead of Berenson: Such reliable sources of accuracy as "TK News by Matt Taibbi" at #2 (appropriate number) and "Glenn Greenwald" at #6 (Mercola having bumped up a spot to #5).