Booming as in explosions and the end of an era… sports illustrated is going under…
Is this more go woke go broke? Or pander to trans ideology? He/she in the swimsuit edition?SI was sold off by its parent YEARS ago and the fact that it failed to figure out the Internet has ZERO to do with today's economy.
You really are desperate.
Putting a transsexual on the cover of their swimsuit issue had to be the nail in the coffin.
I think they were virtue signaling for their next potential employer. Or at least virtue signaling their legacy upon retirement. Nobody at a print publication is really shocked when the pink slip comes.
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I can understand the decline of print media with the rise of instant distribution electronic media. But I am less certain why there are cuts in net reporter jobs (if that's true.)
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One thing that has kept some newspapers afloat even though they lose money is that there are wealthy ideological owners who pour their wealth into controlling the narrative.
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I was watching Glenn Greenwald lambasting Taylor Lorenz as someone who never really broke any story involving the powerful, saying her big scoop was doxing Libs of Tik Tok's Chaya Raichik -- a private individual posting on X/Twitter from her kitchen -- way to safeguard us from the rich and powerful Taylor!