I am curious as to how you plan to make a profitable news site that isn't shit.
News isn't profitable without outrage, and outrage is much easier to manufacture through lies by omission and selective reporting than it is to grow organically. SoJus and cancel culture are very prominent symptoms of this problem, but literally EVERY news org is guilty of this: CNN, Fox, Mother Jones, OAG, Slate, Breitbart, NPR, you name it.
Journalism as an industry is fucked, how do you plan to change that?
I hope you are successful, I really do. But I honestly think you are setting yourself up for a bad time.
If this isn't going to be a money maker, you'll have to do it in addition to your primary method of putting food on the table. For your hard work, you will be branded a racist, shadow banned from google searches, and anyone who works with you will be blacklisted in the job market.
Why? Because you won't preach the dogma and signal boost the outrage that the rest of them are profiting off of. They can't have someone deescalating their primary money printing narratives, its bad for business.
Best case scenario: your site falls into obscurity. Worst case scenario: you get popular, then subsequently found in your apartment by commiting suicide via 10 9mms to the back.
I am well aware of the pitfalls ahead, but I am in a special situation that affords me immunity from the things you have outlined. I won't go into much detail, but I feel that I am one of the few people who can successfully navigate this due to my experience in the legal world, and my unique funding situation.
Time shall tell. Sign up to the forums and post something interesting.
I am curious as to how you plan to make a profitable news site that isn't shit.
News isn't profitable without outrage, and outrage is much easier to manufacture through lies by omission and selective reporting than it is to grow organically. SoJus and cancel culture are very prominent symptoms of this problem, but literally EVERY news org is guilty of this: CNN, Fox, Mother Jones, OAG, Slate, Breitbart, NPR, you name it.
Journalism as an industry is fucked, how do you plan to change that?
By not needing to be profitable.
No advertisers, no deplatform.
I hope you are successful, I really do. But I honestly think you are setting yourself up for a bad time.
If this isn't going to be a money maker, you'll have to do it in addition to your primary method of putting food on the table. For your hard work, you will be branded a racist, shadow banned from google searches, and anyone who works with you will be blacklisted in the job market.
Why? Because you won't preach the dogma and signal boost the outrage that the rest of them are profiting off of. They can't have someone deescalating their primary money printing narratives, its bad for business.
Best case scenario: your site falls into obscurity. Worst case scenario: you get popular, then subsequently found in your apartment by commiting suicide via 10 9mms to the back.
I hope I'm wrong
I get your concerns man, I really do.
I am well aware of the pitfalls ahead, but I am in a special situation that affords me immunity from the things you have outlined. I won't go into much detail, but I feel that I am one of the few people who can successfully navigate this due to my experience in the legal world, and my unique funding situation.
Time shall tell. Sign up to the forums and post something interesting.