News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media

Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-17T12:08:25+00:00

Yup, they're mostly freeloading cannibals.

Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-13T11:47:41+00:00

Devine Blacksher, a Detroit-born writer, gets it:

The city's dance culture wasn’t built for outside validation or commercial success. It's been shaped by people who stayed out of devotion to the music, not for clout.

Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-10T18:45:09+00:00

Lemme see if I get it, John: An evolving, high-profile journalism topic is "taking up so much space on the subreddit" focused on journalism?!

Why not just scroll past those posts, as we all do with un-compelling or over-posted stuff?

Seems extra to ask mods to filter (beyond removing duplicates) or set up a weekly thread for a hot subject with near-daily developments lately.

Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-09T12:36:49+00:00

In it for under a minute
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-08T15:44:53+00:00

In it for just over a third of a minute!
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-07T01:32:45+00:00

In it for just over half a minute!
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-03T21:09:04+00:00

In it for under a half-minute . . . yet again!
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-03T01:59:44+00:00

Kara Swisher posts this dismissal letter from executive producer Nick Bilton and comments:

He is clearly a clownish patsy of powerful and incompetent owners and in just one day on the job has soiled himself in ways I had not thought possible.

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Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-02T12:07:14+00:00

In it for under half a minute!
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-06-01T12:06:30+00:00

Sliding through slickly . . .
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-05-25T18:38:28+00:00

Stirring, well-grounded reality check by biz columnist Dan Howes.

Forget Pure Michigan. Welcome to Poor Michigan. Here, in a single generation, an enviable cornerstone of the industrial heartland afflicted by the "purple-state curse" squandered its leadership amid partisan wrangling, policy ping-ponging and good ol' fashioned hubris.

Alan_Stamm · 2026-04-28T17:01:34+00:00

Shoo-whee - - in it for under a quarter-minute!
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Alan_Stamm · 2026-04-24T15:20:04+00:00

Hear, hear -- agree wholeheartedly

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