Again, I'm so baffled by this. Sarah is a professional journalist. She works at New York Magazine. She could have spent five minutes sending an email to The Atlantic and the magazine would have shared what it shared with me. What is the point of this? https://t.co/XTKry8Fmfu

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) February 28, 2024

!chuds you'll never hate journos enough

edit: lol she responded to jesse

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The AP stealth-edits story to note that Native American tribes used scalping against each other rather than just being a "gruesome practice taken up by white colonists" against Native Americans as the original article stated.https://t.co/RvFlnSxYVF https://t.co/6vQMlWlsF7 pic.twitter.com/47C6jocT28

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) January 3, 2024

Before white supremacy gets its grubby way

AFTER HITLER LITERALLY REWRITES HISTORY

I honestly thought they just had one of those moments where they mixed it up and had a shitty editor. Nope.

Lol of course.

The country with the freest press? The one that gives me tax breaks. https://t.co/OIVM1q2D0N pic.twitter.com/9oRyhysNPB

— Michael Lane (@mlanetrain) May 5, 2024

https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1787184386795770303

Woah. Wtf.

All anchors in this 21min news clip and numerous other things are AI powered.

Holy smokes, things are going to get wild

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— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) December 13, 2023

Should've chose a better career path dork. Don't let me catch you on the street, cute twink.

New data has revealed 1 in 3 women find it a massive “turn off” when a potential partner takes zero interest in current societal issues.

While 1 in 4 people state having a partner that actively engages with politics and social causes makes them “more attractive”.

so 2/3 women are fine with grillchads and 3/4 of people do not care about your politics

https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1778496755597734048

He shot at them first

this is on the NYT front page today pic.twitter.com/xzD4YElUNn

— normality (@getnormality) January 23, 2024

Once when I was a kid I happened upon a dead frog on a trail in the woods. I flipped it over and was horrified to see worms burrowing in its entrails. For some reason that same feeling of horror, pity and disgust surfaces in me whenever I read this dude's tweets

— Lo-fi Republican (@LoFiRepublican) January 26, 2024

Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit. https://t.co/qachKhAuHo

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 15, 2023

orange site

🤯 this ad for a Washington Post employee strike reminds me of why I can’t fukcen stand the Washington Post and its fukcen “writers”.
Learn to code 👨‍💻
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— Adam Townsend (@adamscrabble) December 6, 2023

If video watching aint yo thang they tell you how they risked their lives and will hold powerful institutions accountable, brought to you by amazon

When 2,529 people were offered a free subscription to their local newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer, only forty-four accepted—less than 2 percent—according to an academic study set to be published this year in the American Journal of Political Science.

Dan Hopkins, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the study, titled “Unsubscribed and Undemanding,” in 2021. The purpose of the research, Hopkins said, was to assess practical ways to increase interest in local or regional news for an audience that seems more interested in national, partisan media outlets. (The pool of those offered subscriptions was made up of locals who had previously responded to political surveys.) Hopkins said that he was “surprised and dismayed” when he realized that only 1.7 percent had accepted the free subscription.

The findings add context to what has been a difficult start to 2024 for American media. There have been hundreds of layoffs across the industry—the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, and Business Insider, among others, have all downsized. At the local level, half the counties in America have either one news outlet or none at all, according to Medill's 2023 State of Local News Project. Of those counties, over two hundred are “news deserts,” without any local media whatsoever.

Hopkins conceived the study after writing a book in 2018 on the nationalization of American politics. In The Increasingly United States he argues that declining interest and access to local news forces voters, who are not otherwise familiar with the specifics of their local governments' agendas or legislators, to default to national partisan lines when casting regional ballots. As a result, politicians are not held accountable, voters are not aware of the issues, and the candidates who get elected reflect national ideologies rather than representing local needs.

Hopkins and his coauthor Tori Gorton sent the free-subscription offers on postcards in the mail and targeted social media messages over the spring and summer of 2021. They ran a parallel study in which they determined the level of engagement with free local news stories (mostly about COVID) on social media. Some of the responses made clear that there were strong feelings at play.

One returned an invitation to subscribe to the Post-Gazette with a message: “[t]he P-G is an awful newspaper run by horrible bigoted people.” Other comments collected from the social platforms read: “no thanks! Fake News” and “GOTTA BE BAD FOR THE MEDIA WHEN YOU CAN'T GIVE THE CRAP AWAY.”

Neither paper has yet covered the study in its own pages. The Post-Gazette did not respond to requests for comment. Evan Benn, the senior director of special projects at the Inquirer, told CJR that the study was a welcome chance to gain insight into potential subscribers looking for local news, especially given that a grant from the University of Pennsylvania covered the cost of the subscriptions. He declined to respond on the record to the substance of the findings.

Hopkins did not find an obvious solution to the problem. “It is easier, as a researcher,” he said, “to study why things have changed than how to push in the opposite direction.”