The good news: hard, local news drives subs. The bad news: it doesn't produce enough subs to cover the salaries of the reporters producing it. @joshuabenton.com breaks down the academic study. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what...
‘Willingness to pay in attention is really different than willingness to pay in dollars.’ Cool research covered by @joshuabenton.com of @niemanlab.org on the difference between clickbait and substance in converting readers to newspaper subscribers.
"Willingness to pay in attention is really different than willingness to pay in dollars." - @joshuabenton.com at Nieman www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what...
Top line: Lots of hard news is good, but even those hard news stories don’t convert enough readers to sustain the cost of producing them.
But fascinating information further down worth absorbing.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what...
That's because the U.S. is controlled by a white supremacist regime.
We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.
Unending contempt for this insulting, infantilizing illustration from people who got basically everything wrong for decades
are you just going to do this for every generation
I once again invite you to imagine the epistemic environment these people live in -- their group chats, the publications they read, the social media they consume, the kinds of people in their social circles.
Combined with the Los Angeles mayoral primary yesterday, where yet another unqualified, politically ignorant, and morally bankrupt reality TV star advanced to a run off, I would argue that everything broken in the 2024 election is simply beyond repair. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
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An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans.
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
Every single refugee we've let in since December is supposedly fleeing white genocide.
The next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Adam Gray (D-Calif.) have launched what they hope will act as a rallying cry for centrists, declaring that “we are capitalist, not socialist.”
The next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans.
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
Alex Ip 葉清霖
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BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
Alex Ip 葉清霖
www.rpc.state.gov
An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
