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mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
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the CBS Nightly News with the words, “And that’s the way it was.” Few of his viewers found it extraordinary that the clash and turmoil of billions of human
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Newsletters 3.0: Why “newsletter ad-only” businesses are dead and how to adapt
If you’re running a “newsletter business” the way most people do, you’re doomed to fail.
Let me explain…
When people think of a newsletter business or newsletter-first media company they think about a free daily newsletter that generates revenue from ads inside email.
This
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news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,