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You forgot the part about a paywall. You need to pay to learn about the cravenness.
You don’t, but they don’t want you to know you can just change the URL a bit and never hit the paywall.
None of the news organizations in the USA deserve payment because they do not report news, they act as propaganda agents.
Meidas Touch is currently the best news source and they can be found on BlueSky, TikTok, YouTube, as well as their podcast.
I mostly given up on Meidas Touch, after years of videos proclaiming that Trump and the Republicans are going down hard. They do have some useful information, but it is embedded in a lot of editorializing that doesn't really do anything.
If you watch that channel, the Trump administration is on the verge of collapse, and it's too disheartening to find time and time again that it isn't.
Those are very fair criticisms.
I think Meidas is trying to get the message out to the folks who are sub-sixth grade English skills and therefore they use more emotional content to connect with the folks who are…less intellectual/less able to really understand the depth of what is going on from a reading perspective. They also try to appeal to the Gen Z audience, which is definitely annoying but also necessary.
They do these things because that is where the left’s messaging fails- at emotional people, at Gen Z, and at lower education levels.
Aaron Parnas is doing a good job, and is a lot less emotional on his TikTok and Substack. He may be a good resource as well.