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To repeat what I've posted at other Substacks I subscribe to:
- I have direct links in my bookmarks to BEAS, paulwells.substack.com, and the others. I don't see anything pushed at me by never visiting "substack.com" as such.
- Small papers that couldn't afford their own presses always had to go to a printers' - the U.Calgary student paper …
To repeat what I've posted at other Substacks I subscribe to:
- I have direct links in my bookmarks to BEAS, paulwells.substack.com, and the others. I don't see anything pushed at me by never visiting "substack.com" as such.
- Small papers that couldn't afford their own presses always had to go to a printers' - the U.Calgary student paper with all the community newsletters, club newsletters - and the 1970s Calgary branch of the KKK. No problem, as both being their customer did not cause letters columns to interact, or readers from one subjected to content from the other. Substack can let a reader do that, see above.
People imagine that Donald was the first pol to actually propagate conspiracy theories (think I'm repeating this, again, it deserves it; my Canadaland "Duly Noted" would be the same every week).
GW Bush peddled a ludicrous theory that Saddam would conspire with his arch-enemies (worse than America), the Islamists who wanted him brought down - to hand them a free nuclear bomb, no less. The NYT and WaPo not only did not debunk this pathetically obvious falsehood, they took the side of selling the war - NYT with Judy Miller, later disgraced and the NYT apologized, WaPo with 27 of 29 war op-eds in favour. What kind of "liberal" press keeps Noam Chomsky locked out for 25 years?
I think the big papers and the networks do provide one service to liberalism and progressivism: if THEY actually carry a story that harms the arguments or prospects of the right-wing, then, wow, it must be a serious story.