People losing their minds about the @novaramedia fundraiser don't seem to have any idea how the media marketplace works. Left-wing media struggle not because they are unpopular with audiences but because they are unpopular with advertisers ...
... venture capitalists (clue's in the name), & with those who control state and corporate subsidies. We don't pay full price for most of what we see and hear & read. Almost all of it dismisses or ignores the kinds of change thought necessary and desirable by the left.
If someone is arguing for a radical redistribution of power in favour of popular constituencies, they will be arguing in an environment that is intensely hostile to them - because it is dominated by those who own and benefit from massive amounts of power.
To expect them to succeed 'in the marketplace' with such an agenda is ... stupid.
If you want to create a democratic public sphere, then campaign for #mediareform so that descriptions and proposals that are unpopular with the 1% are not kept away from the attention of large audiences. Fund independent media in the mean time.
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