{"id":50612,"date":"2021-07-03T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=50612"},"modified":"2021-07-03T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:35:19","slug":"too-many-opinions-and-too-high-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=50612","title":{"rendered":"Too many opinions (and too high a price)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was strolling through Twitter earlier, I made a momentous executive decision: instead of re-tweeting everything I like, I would restrict my re-tweeting to actual factual news items, and give a little heart action \u2665<\/span> to opinions, comments, witty remarks I like.<\/p>\n

There are too many opinions. I know this because I read a ton of them. And I appreciate a lot of them, especially ones which take news facts I’ve already absorbed and offer me more depth. Or those that slice ‘n’ dice the facts and make me laugh (LOL).<\/p>\n

Thoughts from experts are most appreciated in my home. I am an expert in pretty much nothing. I know about some stuff, I know some things about other stuff, I know how to Google, but my in-depth expertise is fairly nil…and widespread in its nility. So I want opinions from people who have demonstrated expertise in areas of knowledge, areas in which I have an abiding interest.<\/p>\n

But there has been an explosion of opinion offerings lately and I’m not buying it. Literally: a number of journalists and experts in one thing or another have set up their wares in several internet shops that sell<\/em> those wares via subscriptions. I’ve read about SubStack<\/a> and know there are more such…well, I don’t know what to call them.<\/p>\n

“Publishers of newsletters from a wide variety of well-known or other people.” I guess that’s what I can call them. But what do they produce which I want to read and pay for?<\/em><\/p>\n

Along with writing, what I read and pay for now keeps me almost fully occupied. Two daily newspapers (and a sports section from another “newspaper” I will not name and will never pay for) and several national magazines offer me both facts and opinions. What will a subscription or ten to SubStack newsletters give me? Deeper wisdom?<\/p>\n

One of these SubStack guys says, \u201cI\u2019m finally writing the things I want to write.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever was preventing him from doing that before SubStack? And why does he imagine I’d want to pay for reading what he wants to write? Whoever he is?<\/p>\n

I have been writing the things I want to write here, on this blog, since 2010. I have accumulated a readership: last month, I had 207,000 hits; 58,000 page visits; and I have 91,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n

But I don’t charge a penny for writing the things I want to write. It would cease being fun and, I suspect, I’d lose a lot of readers.<\/p>\n

And I don’t want to pay a penny for the thoughts and feelings of writers who have left or otherwise departed from, say, the Times or WaPo for what they consider more fertile lands.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said numerous times, I get my facts and opinions from my newspapers and select magazines. I don’t have the time and I don’t have the money to get opinions elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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