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   Robert R. (iloveamericanews@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 23:36:58 JST Robert R.

   Wow. Kamala is toxic.
   https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1848823410773868709

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 23:36:58 JST fu

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     @ILoveAmericaNews the L.A. times got a new owner a few years ago and he sees that such partisan action doesn't help him sell papers or advertising.
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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 03:43:51 JST fu

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     @ILoveAmericaNews you clearly dont' understand markets. Nothings is going to sell a lot of papers in 2024. Unless you are saying Trump is going to shut down the internet.
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     Robert R. (iloveamericanews@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 03:43:52 JST Robert R.

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     @fu

     Could be playing the long game.

     Trump winning will sell a lot of papers.

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 11:53:24 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @fu Newspapers were in decline in the US before the Internet was publicly available. Things were so bad that a law passed allowing papers in certain large cities to consolidate their back-end operations with their competitors as long as the editorial and marketing remained separate.
     
     And where those weren't approved, Major cities became single-paper towns.
     
     Example: in 1984, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner closed, leaving the Los Angeles Times as the sole large paper. LAT became the most profitable paper in the country for a few years, as it got all the advertising funds that would have been split across papers.
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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 12:00:02 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     And it became so profitable simply because there wasn't any alternative or competition available at the time.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 04:34:36 JST GNU Too

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     • fu
     @lnxww371 right on mate @ILoveAmericaNews @fu what the heck is the ALT-Left? What is rude about noting that there is no way to increase sale of newspapers in 21st century America, save perhaps governments making their competitors much more difficult to access