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Bleacher Creature

(11,455 posts) Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:09 AM Thursday

What paid media do you subscribe to?

I gave up my Washington Post and NYT online subscriptions this year (for obvious reasons) and am trying to figure out the best ways to support more responsible media outlets.

Right now I'm thinking about subscribing to the Atlantic and possibly a few substacks. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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What paid media do you subscribe to? (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Thursday OP

Why would I pay to subscribe to for-profit media? Think. Again. Thursday #1

The Guardian, ProPublica, Vanity Fair tenderfoot Thursday #2

None SheltieLover Thursday #3

The Atlantic and Marc Elias' Democracy Docket. mucifer Thursday #4

None doc03 Thursday #5

I refuse to divulge that information, given current circumstances. Paladin Thursday #6

I hate the NYTIMES but I subscribe to it for the game's & puzzles womanofthehills Thursday #7

None. Iggo Thursday #8

The Guardian and PBS Ping Tung Thursday #9

Currently, only Haaretz, which I haven't Mike 03 Thursday #10

The New Yorker, NYT, and the Detroit Free Press bif Thursday #11

The Guardian. Polly Hennessey Thursday #12

DU is enough for me Kaleva Thursday #13

I donate to the Guardian, and Wikipedia, and DU NewHendoLib Thursday #14

NJ.com Wicked Blue Thursday #15

The Guardian Jit423 Thursday #16

A couple of podcasts on Patreon and that's about it. Initech Thursday #17

Think. Again.

(18,778 posts)

1. Why would I pay to subscribe to for-profit media?

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:11 AM

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I can find advertisements for free anywhere.

tenderfoot

(8,879 posts)

2. The Guardian, ProPublica, Vanity Fair

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:11 AM

Thursday

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SheltieLover

(59,930 posts)

3. None

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:12 AM

Thursday

mucifer

(24,908 posts)

4. The Atlantic and Marc Elias' Democracy Docket.

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:12 AM

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They both continue to do very good work.

Marc is committed to putting up a fight and is calling out the media and others who are backing down.

In Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, one of the characters is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Nearly 100 years later these lines still ring true. Bankruptcy — whether financial, moral or political — tends to happen gradually until it happens suddenly.

The moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party did not happen overnight. It happened gradually — starting with Newt Gingrich’s attack on the government in the early 1990s. It continued with the Tea Party movement, the birther conspiracy and the nomination of Donald Trump in 2016.

Corporate titans have gone out of their way to praise a man and a movement that in 2021 they promised never to support. World leaders who know better act as scared children avoiding an abusive parent. Even some progressive groups are acting with more trepidation and care.

If, at some point in the future, Democracy Docket goes quiet or goes bankrupt, it will be because its subscribers and members have decided that it is no longer worth supporting. Until then, I can promise you, it will not obey and it will not back down.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-choices-ive-made/

doc03

(36,863 posts)

5. None

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:13 AM

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Paladin

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6. I refuse to divulge that information, given current circumstances.

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:19 AM

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I'd advise others to do the same.

womanofthehills

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7. I hate the NYTIMES but I subscribe to it for the game's & puzzles

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:21 AM

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I get it when I can get a deal on the rate - like $4.00 a month. It’s something my honey and I enjoy doing together at night. We love “Connections” -

I get all my news from free podcasts- I sort of like “Breaking Points” although sometimes irritated with Crystal. I really like the independent podcasts -not supported by corporations. Great thing about podcasts- lots of different opinions and I can listen while doing boring chores or driving.

Iggo

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8. None.

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:22 AM

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No reason to.

Ping Tung

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9. The Guardian and PBS

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Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:29 AM

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Mike 03

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10. Currently, only Haaretz, which I haven't

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 11:33 AM

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cancelled out of a mix of empathy and pity (but I digress).

I unsubscribed from a lot of newsletters and substacks, not because they were bad or deficient in any way (they are good), but to intentionally begin to limit my exposure to what I suspect is coming.

There is one substack I might join: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's (if she still does one). She is so brilliant. I just felt that after reading her book and hearing so many of her interviews (many of which are on YouTube) I more less understand her analysis of strongmen and autocratic societies. But I do constantly wonder what she is thinking about "this" and "that."

Others I might look into:
Timothy Snyder
find out if Anne Applebaum has a newsletter or substack
Jason Stanley, the expert on fascism.