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3. It's easy to attract nutjobs, whackos and magats

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 10:18 AM

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Weiss hasn't figured out that those audiences don't scale and even if they did, advertisers want nothing to do with them. How a ridiculous small-minded hatemonger rose up to head a national news division is media malpractice.

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