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JEMIMA KELLY The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of Substack’s biggest names, makes between $80,000 and $160,000 a month in subscriptions to his newsletter. … Substack, a newsletter platform whose model is based on paid subscriptions, is flying particularly high. It announced on Tuesday that it was raising a further $65m from investors, in a round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz that will reportedly value it at $650m. Established in 2017, Substack now has more than half a million subscribers double what it had in December. And some of its biggest names are making out like bandits. Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who in October resigned from The Intercept, the online media platform he co-founded, citing “repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity”, has between 20,000 and 40,000 paid subscribers to his newsletter, each contributing at least $5 a month. Once Substack has taken its standard 1 ....
Asian: 0.4% The Detroit Police Department has one of the largest percentages of black officers of any major city police department, reflecting current overall city demographics. Lawsuits alleging discrimination stemming from the influence of affirmative action and allegations of race-based promotional bias for executive positions have surfaced repeatedly. As of 2008, the majority of upper command members in the Detroit PD were black. Detroit’s murder rate per 100k in 2020 was 48.7, more than an order of magnitude higher than, say, San Diego’s murder rate. San Diego’s police officers are 6.7% black. In defense of the Detroit PD, however, murders didn’t get all that much worse during 2020’s Racial Reckoning. Detroit’s murders only went up 20% in 2020 over 2019, versus 38% in urban America in general. Detroit’s white mayor and black police took a harder line against the Mostly Peaceful Protests than most local authorities dared. ....
By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The Times, and the host of the “Rabbit Hole” podcast. His column, “The Shift,” examines the intersection of technology, business, and culture. You can find him on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. @kevinroose • Facebook Feb. 2, 2021 Hoaxes, lies and collective delusions aren’t new, but the extent to which millions of Americans have embraced them may be. Thirty percent of Republicans have a favorable view of QAnon, according to a recent YouGov poll. According to other polls, more than 70 percent of Republicans believe Mr. Trump legitimately won the election, and 40 percent of Americans including plenty of Democrats believe the baseless theory that Covid-19 was manufactured in a Chinese lab. ....
February 01, 2021 9:43 AM ET Font Size: Left-wing corporate media members are now pushing for right-leaning outlets, specifically Fox News, to be reprimanded and even censored for what they claim are Fox News and other networks’ culpability in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Fox News delivered much more positive coverage of President Donald Trump than other networks like CNN and MSNBC, as shown by a study of media coverage in the Trump administration’s first 100 days from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. The divergence between left- and right-leaning outlets have become even more obvious as spats between networks like Fox News and CNN have broken out each calling the other disinformation or fake news, as reported by Deadline. After allegations of a stolen election culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, members of the left-wing media feel more vindicated than ever in their ongoing attempts to censor Fox News. ....
A year ago, a politician asked me who I thought would win the 2020 Presidential election. I said that it might come down to which side’s crazies acted out worst. For example, Black Lives Matter terrorism and rioting hurt Hillary in 2016, while the right-wing mass shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue in just before the 2018 election helped the Democrats. As it turned out, I was wrong: the right behaved surprisingly well throughout 2020, with virtually no mass shootings or Mostly Peaceful Protests, while the anti-Trump side went nuts after Memorial Day. And Trump still lost. Still, it was very close, with Trump coming within 34,000 votes of tying 269-269, which would have meant he’d win in a state-by-state vote in the House, assuming the inevitable anti-Trump violence didn’t lead to a coup. (Alternative timeline headline: “Despite the Tragic Lynching of Barron Trump, Yesterday’s Burning of the White House was Mostly Peaceful.”) ....