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Alright I just read this. Holy fuck is my take. First of all, I guess those pictures will show that Bezos has balls made of titanium because good lord this is a bold play and frankly much more is involved here than Bezos’ embarrassment. AMI is a predatory, criminal ...
2/ enterprise which has gone beyond mere extortion to involving itself in extortion to manipulate national elections and weaponize extortion to serve as a tool of the sitting president. This is a big fucking deal as Joe Biden once put it. And whatever other shortcomings he ...
3/ may in terms of Amazons role in the economy, I give him huge credit for taking this step. As he says, if the richest man in the world can stand up to AMI’s criminal activities, who can?
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My understanding is that Gillespie oppo researchers did find the offending yearbook page. But Gillespie’s team mistook it for one of Gillespie’s own ads and thus the opportunity was lost.
Trumper replies in this thread are amazing
they're even better a day later. the inner world of Trumpers/GOPs going through the motions of fake outrage is fascinating.
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Josh Marshall
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The question for all these companies - VICE, BF, etc - is whether anyone wants to own them for longterm/consistent profitability (or that combined with 'synergy' advantages in a larger media co). They've never lived in that world. None have ever had those kinds of owners.
2/ There are lots of reasons to own a media company that posts consistent if modest profits. There are reasons to own one that just breaks even. There are even reasons to own one that might lose predictable and relatively small amounts of money every year. The big challenge ...
3/ for these companies is that none of them are currently owned by people who are in it for any of these reasons. They're owned by people who want to get their money back out with big returns. If BF is basically a break even business or can make a small percentage ...
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For the future of news nerds: TPM now has a total of 29,422 subscribers. 26,193 of those are Prime, our core subscription. 2,918 have now upgraded to Prime AF, the ad free version of the site we launched last week. 311 subscribe to Inside, which is inclusive of the first two.
2/ Altogether, subscription revenue now accounts for over 50% of the company's total revenue and we anticipate it will be closer to 60% on an annualized basis by the close of this year. This compares with subscription revenues totaling 16% of revenue as recently as 2015 and ...
3/ 6% in 2014. This is against total revenues which have risen modestly but consistently over the last five years. Our major effort this month was the launch of Prime AF, which involved a several months' long refactoring & rebuilding of the system we use to manage subscriptions.
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And take in some beauty.

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