https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/25/2149207/-Daily-Kos-is-laying-off-staff-Here-are-the-two-painful-reasons-why

I've been reading their coverage of Ukraine and it's been good.
Then this layoff agony popped up and it's telling on a whole different level.

1) Trump was admittedly the best thing that ever happened to left wing media. He drove page views and they willingly amped up the scary orange man cuz he was good for business. Trumps passé for everyone but the truly deranged now (Trevor comes to mind) and page views for Kos plummeted as a result as did their number of pages (
content) as well.

2) Their "list" business (e-mail lists to be specific) is dying due to "unfair" competition. Competitors who don't seek permission before selling e-mails are beating the pants off Kos who won't do that.
But this is horribly revealing of the lack of integrity of their customer base which sure as hell wasn't any republican or right wing pac etc.
Their customers are quite happy to buy pilfered e-mail addresses by the millions from unscrupulous providers who don't obtain any use permissions.
What kind of scum are they?

ScottW

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