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That is just so petty. People can still go to the NY Times easily. Just not via Twitter. What's the point? Pettiness. That's the point.
That’s you and me. That doesn’t apply to most people. I have rss feeds to follow what interests me. But Twitter for a lot of people is just that, a glorified rss reader. They follow some people, some news outlets and that’s it. The number of people who visit NYT organically is, in my assumption, less than 100k. I genuinely believe that services like Google News, Meta & Twitter is where NYT gets most of their clicks from.
The NYT has 8.6 million digital-only subscribers. Where's that "100k" coming from ?
I seriously doubt your numbers. Granted, I'm older, but I subscribe to NYT and go there almost daily to read the headlines, a few stories, and a couple games. I hit a few others nearly daily as well for different takes. About 20 years ago, I used Google News, but I switched a long time ago to direct paper access because I didn't want to be fed only what I want to hear. I want a more holistic news diet.
Ditto. I was sick of sensationalism and click bait trash. Their research articles are also really well done and intelligent. I subscribe so I at least have one decent source without the mental burden of constantly having to sort fact from fiction.
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