Seems I'm not just the only one talking about 'Substack Economics'.
"We’re Going to Be Stunned by How Much Money He Makes”:
- Wall Street Looks to Donald Trump’s Next Con - Vanity Fair
"What some on Wall Street think Trump will do is further tap into a subset of his army of 74.2 million voters and ask its members to give him, say, $100 a year to continue to get his pithy utterances, now that he has been removed from most of the major social media platforms. Think of it as a Trumpian version of Substack. Follow the logic for a moment."
"If 25 million people agreed to pay Trump $100 a year, that’s $2.5 billion free and clear, far more money than he would need to pay off his creditors."
An important topic, keep covering, hopefully, to restore robust pluralism.
E.g., this quote, from the Lefty, no-paywall Guardian, is specious.
“Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan, formerly of the Intercept, Vox Media and New York Magazine respectively, have all jumped ship to sell their work directly to subscribers via the service (Substack).”
Baloney. Messieurs Greenwald, Ygelesias, & Sullivan all left their respective platforms because of a sharp deterioration in permitted opinion, diversity, ideas, and speech. They were simply 'canceled' for their speech.
For the moment, the inalienability of free speech is in the toilet. That's what makes this thread so important.
N.B. "The Guardian's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion, and its reputation as a platform for social liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often-pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or "politically correct" tendencies." -Wikipedia
That said - no argument that they felt ‘restricted’ in what they could say - but that has been for others ‘for ever’ ... now ‘passionate’ writers have a place to go - and build an income ....
.. and now Kevin Drum has left Mother Jones : https://jabberwocking.com/
Seems I'm not just the only one talking about 'Substack Economics'.
"We’re Going to Be Stunned by How Much Money He Makes”:
- Wall Street Looks to Donald Trump’s Next Con - Vanity Fair
"What some on Wall Street think Trump will do is further tap into a subset of his army of 74.2 million voters and ask its members to give him, say, $100 a year to continue to get his pithy utterances, now that he has been removed from most of the major social media platforms. Think of it as a Trumpian version of Substack. Follow the logic for a moment."
"If 25 million people agreed to pay Trump $100 a year, that’s $2.5 billion free and clear, far more money than he would need to pay off his creditors."
It seems that Twitter agrees that Newsletters are big business. One of Substack's competitors ... 'Revue' - has just been bought by Twitter.
Read All About it : https://www.getrevue.co/profile/the_week_in_newsletters/issues/whew-309265
An important topic, keep covering, hopefully, to restore robust pluralism.
E.g., this quote, from the Lefty, no-paywall Guardian, is specious.
“Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan, formerly of the Intercept, Vox Media and New York Magazine respectively, have all jumped ship to sell their work directly to subscribers via the service (Substack).”
Baloney. Messieurs Greenwald, Ygelesias, & Sullivan all left their respective platforms because of a sharp deterioration in permitted opinion, diversity, ideas, and speech. They were simply 'canceled' for their speech.
For the moment, the inalienability of free speech is in the toilet. That's what makes this thread so important.
N.B. "The Guardian's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion, and its reputation as a platform for social liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often-pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or "politically correct" tendencies." -Wikipedia
That said - no argument that they felt ‘restricted’ in what they could say - but that has been for others ‘for ever’ ... now ‘passionate’ writers have a place to go - and build an income ....
And to ‘balance’ - Uk’s ‘organ’ from the right - the Daily Torygraph remains firmly to the left of the American center.
This just in :
American viewers now spend $47 per month on streaming services.
https://www.nme.com/news/tv/american-viewers-now-spend-47-a-month-on-streaming-services-according-to-new-study-2863492