this is the line that pushed me to paid subscriber - This “Football is Fun” editorial, this kindergarten-level piece of shit that would cause a high school newspaper editor to blush at its utter inanity, is an indicator that the editorial board of the paper has already sunk to USA Today depths of obsequiousness to conventional wisdom, and may be headed even lower
(should've done it sooner - the irony isn't lost on me)
As a journalist, I appreciate your work overall and I love this column — and it worked. It got me to pay up, for good reason. You're an invaluable source on labor issues in particular, please keep it up!
While I'm here, I'll mention my own current project, launched earlier this year: https://theprogressivesouth.org/. Trying to amplify progressive voices across the South. (Very much including labor voices.)
As soon as I get a jaaaay o be I will subscribe (I just graduated nursing school). In the meantime how can we just like, send ypu $5-10 here and there? Some writers I follow have this and it is doable for me until I can afford like 7 subscriptions. Thank you for keeping this available to us poors. We appreciate you.
I happen to be a paying subscriber. I agree with the politics, it's well written, some of it is very very sharp, etc. But consider this Hamilton. I'm paying $60/yr for this. $60 more for Steve Vladeck. I hold off on a bunch of others because, you know, it adds up. Meanwhile, I pay just a few hundred bucks for all of the NYT, with all their add-ons too.
I wonder if there would be a way to bundle Substacks - you know, like choose 10 for $150 - that would make more financial sense for writer/producers in the end.
This is an idea that a lot of people have talked about but does not yet exist. I think inevitably it will happen, and/ or more individual pubs will combine to reform bigger publications. As a reader I feel your pain.
There should be a subscription to Substack, but I understand that is a tiny amount per author. Maybe one chooses particular authors so as to weed out dreck.
It's the Breitbart Doctrine. It doesn't go far enough (https://cancellingreality.substack.com/p/the-breitbart-doctrine-doesnt-go). Breitbart said that politics is downstream from culture. Change someone's culture, their politics will change. What he didn't say was that politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from reality. Change someone's reality, their culture changes, and their politics change. The reason why the right wing is so intent on establishing a media empire or "filling the zone with shit" is that they need people to live in that fantasy world so that they vote for the right wing policies that solve the "problems" of that fantasy world, like migrant crime.
Public funding for journalism is good until it’s not. Imagine what this administration would have done with “their” journalists? In the American system, especially, which is so partisan, I’m not so sure.
Can you please make an option for paying once a year for an annual subscription? One would opt in every year. I would prefer that. It’s a nightmare to keep track of a bunch of automatic monthly deductions.
this is the line that pushed me to paid subscriber - This “Football is Fun” editorial, this kindergarten-level piece of shit that would cause a high school newspaper editor to blush at its utter inanity, is an indicator that the editorial board of the paper has already sunk to USA Today depths of obsequiousness to conventional wisdom, and may be headed even lower
(should've done it sooner - the irony isn't lost on me)
Thank you Stephanie.
As a journalist, I appreciate your work overall and I love this column — and it worked. It got me to pay up, for good reason. You're an invaluable source on labor issues in particular, please keep it up!
While I'm here, I'll mention my own current project, launched earlier this year: https://theprogressivesouth.org/. Trying to amplify progressive voices across the South. (Very much including labor voices.)
Appreciate you on both fronts.
As soon as I get a jaaaay o be I will subscribe (I just graduated nursing school). In the meantime how can we just like, send ypu $5-10 here and there? Some writers I follow have this and it is doable for me until I can afford like 7 subscriptions. Thank you for keeping this available to us poors. We appreciate you.
I 100000% thought I was paying for this until I saw the upgrade link! Fixed!!!!!
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I happen to be a paying subscriber. I agree with the politics, it's well written, some of it is very very sharp, etc. But consider this Hamilton. I'm paying $60/yr for this. $60 more for Steve Vladeck. I hold off on a bunch of others because, you know, it adds up. Meanwhile, I pay just a few hundred bucks for all of the NYT, with all their add-ons too.
I wonder if there would be a way to bundle Substacks - you know, like choose 10 for $150 - that would make more financial sense for writer/producers in the end.
This is an idea that a lot of people have talked about but does not yet exist. I think inevitably it will happen, and/ or more individual pubs will combine to reform bigger publications. As a reader I feel your pain.
There should be a subscription to Substack, but I understand that is a tiny amount per author. Maybe one chooses particular authors so as to weed out dreck.
Re-form - that's an interesting idea - new online journalism forms, but built from pre-existing subscriber bases.
I am not a subscriber, but I did contribute a lump sum once before. I would do it again now, but I cannot find a link that allows that …
Thanks for the support and if you prefer to do a one time donation, you can do it here: https://donorbox.org/how-things-work-reporting-fund
A ha!
It's the Breitbart Doctrine. It doesn't go far enough (https://cancellingreality.substack.com/p/the-breitbart-doctrine-doesnt-go). Breitbart said that politics is downstream from culture. Change someone's culture, their politics will change. What he didn't say was that politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from reality. Change someone's reality, their culture changes, and their politics change. The reason why the right wing is so intent on establishing a media empire or "filling the zone with shit" is that they need people to live in that fantasy world so that they vote for the right wing policies that solve the "problems" of that fantasy world, like migrant crime.
That WaPo editorial just reeks of AI.
Public funding for journalism is good until it’s not. Imagine what this administration would have done with “their” journalists? In the American system, especially, which is so partisan, I’m not so sure.
Can you please make an option for paying once a year for an annual subscription? One would opt in every year. I would prefer that. It’s a nightmare to keep track of a bunch of automatic monthly deductions.
You can subscribe annually for $60.
OK, I just made a donation on your link. Can you put that link in all your posts so we always have it?