Hehe, this is my wild card. They are definitely, over-the-top liberal, but you know what-- I like that they’re lefty to the max and not apologetic about it. It’s refreshing to see the stuff I’m thinking show up word-for-word in their headlines. No tippy-toeing there!
Perfect! Love all of it~~ 
let the ceremony begin 
I don’t necessarily disagree, but this is almost exactly what people (myself included) said about Trump in the 2015-16 primary.
Mine doesn’t seem to be working any longer. The page agrees that it’s me, but won’t show me anything unless I sign up, presumably for a paid membership.
I agree that they ought to be paid. The problem is that I’m broke, and there are probably dozens of news sources worth paying for, and I can’t afford to pay for all of them. I have paid subscriptions to my two most local papers, both of which do some actual local reporting that certainly no major news organization is going to bother with, and both of which are in a lot more danger of disappearing than the NYTimes is. I currently have a discount subscription to the Washington Post, which is going to disappear in a couple of months at least unless they offer me a similar discount rate.
I’m not broke but I don’t want to have to juggle a dozen or so subscriptions and renewals every year. And like I’ve said before, the unpleasant experience of unpaid reading makes me wonder if a subscription would be any better. The only paper I’ve paid for this year is the Guardian, partly because they don’t nag you for a paid subscription or bait and switch about an article’s readability, nor are they chock full of ads, so it is a pleasant reading experience, and partly because I am interested enough in reading about the UK that I want to support journalism covering it but not interested enough to get a feel for which outlets are reliable (which I instinctively know for America.)
I just clicked on @ThelmaLou’s link to the NYT on Biden’s executive order plans via my free login, and the article displays. I think with the free login you have a higher article limit than not logged in at all, but I imagine there’s still a limit. You’re probably over it.
You’re probably right. I wonder though whether it’s a limit per week or month, or a total limit since you got the free subscription, since I’ve been noticing it happening a lot lately and I don’t remember it being a problem until lately.
Just a thought, and I haven’t tried this yet, so apologies if it doesn’t work, but there may be some subscriptions to newspapers at your local library online. I know that my local library has a code to unlock the NYT. I don’t know if this unlocks everything or not, but it may be worth checking out, particularly if you have a good local library online resource. As an example, LA public library offers access to the digital versions of the NYT, WaPo and Press Reader. If you live in the area, and probably most areas offer the same, you can get a library card online.
My small-town libraries do have some resources, don’t know if they’ve got that one; though it might well be worth looking into. (Library card was right at the top of my list when I moved here: set up the bed, move the cats (who were promptly under or in one case on the bed), address change, library card, register to vote. I don’t remember whether I hit the libraries or voter registration first.)
So far I’ve been able to hunt down most news stories that I’m seriously interested in on at least one non-paywalled source (helped in that sources local to the story often give several free ones and I’m interested in stuff from various places, so I don’t usually run out of the free ones in any particular area.)
Just adding another potential source =
Perhaps some may disagree but Al Jazeera is neutral in most stories and it’s one of my goto sources.
I read headlines from Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, the Oregonian, and WSJ on Facebook, and CNN and Fox at their sites. We have digital subscriptions to NYT, Washington Post, and our “local” paper, which is now published out of state. I’ll search out NPR and others as needed.
Yep. Look, if i went to the NYT to read it, I’d expect to pay. But what happens is that Google news and people here and people on FB give links to what they consider are important stories- which i can’t read.
Now yes, sometimes the sub is cheap, but I’d have to get several and that means several places my CC# is floating around. Not to mention in the fine print of at least one paper it was $1 per month… for three months and then they automatically charge your CC for the full amount. I consider that a scam, not to mention that means they are storing your CC number, and I KNOW they aint secure.
So fuck them.
That means they store your CC #. And, did you read the fine print?
Mine is worse. The Santa Clarita Valley Signal has been taken over by some weird right wing antimasker pro trump nutcases.
Yes, I went to collitch and always read the fine print. Also learned how to set up a Google calendar tickler to cancel that subscription before the auto-enroll cranks the price up.
And who says educating wimmen doesn’t pay?
That is why you use a prepaid card that is not linked to your bank account. You pay in cash and add money when needed. Easy peasy.
Modnote: OK, lets end the sidebar about paywalls and subscription news. I’m not sure how much more this thread has to cover at this point, but lets stay vaguely on point at least. You’re not the only one DrDeth, but with apologies using your post as convenient for making the note.
This is just a guidance, not a warning. Nothing on your permanent record.
Mea culpa. It’s ok.
Some news items, we start with a editorial:
Having failed in his effort to thwart the voters’ will and hold on to power, Donald J. Trump will leave the White House under the cloud of a second impeachment and facing the humiliation of a trial in the Senate for inciting an insurrection. But the Trump administration didn’t just end badly; it was a disaster from the start.
The question of whether Trump has been the worst president in American history can be debated, but he clearly was one of the worst. He deserves that infamous description not primarily because of poor policy decisions — though there were plenty of those — but because of his defects of character and temperament.
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President Donald Trump seemed to be a teflon president. It didn’t matter how big things seem to get – Trump’s political career seemed to be impermeable. That was until Trump ran into President-elect Joe Biden.
Now, Trump is just days away from leaving office and Biden is about to be inaugurated.
Biden proved to be Trump’s kryptonite and helped himself tremendously by doing something very simple: allowing Trump to be Trump. The President hogged the spotlight as he worried about Biden potentially defeating him.
Some of the lowest points for Trump over the last two years revolved around Biden.
First, there was the 2019 impeachment of Trump. It largely stemmed from him wanting Ukraine’s president to investigate Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
Biden didn’t do anything directly to cause Trump to commit the actions that led to his impeachment. Biden had merely announced he was running for president earlier that year… Trump likely was looking at polling data that showed Biden, among the top contenders in the Democratic primary, was beating Trump in a general election matchup by the most and was better liked than Trump’s 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.
What perhaps Trump didn’t realize was that he was playing right into Biden’s hands. His efforts seem to prove an important point for Biden: Biden was the Democrat Trump feared most… at a time when Democrats were more likely than ever …to prioritize electability over issue agreement.
Democrats got the message Trump was sending and nominated Biden.
Second, Biden defeated Trump in his re-election attempt. Biden did so by doing minimal campaigning…, as Trump seemingly went everywhere during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump appeared in the top paragraph of stories nearly 80% of the time that had either Biden or Trump in them during the general election campaign, according to …Inversely, Biden was in a little more than 20%. …
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Biden seemed to learn the lesson of Clinton’s campaign. Studies showed that Trump polled best when the media spotlight was not on him because he is not a popular politician. His best path to winning was by making the contest a lesser of two evils in the eyes of voters, which he failed to do in 2020.
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