Hacker News Reader

This post also announces a newsletter (with a free option) that might be a decent outlet for moderate pro-democracy news.

Imho, this type of news matters for hackers, whether we like politics or not.

Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859669

That’s a discussion of Krugman leaving the NY Times, and I don't think he’s joining Rubin’s newsletter (unless I missed something).

Different people, different newspapers, and different new homes, although both are on substack.

Just adding this for clarity.

He has joined the same substack, The Contrarian

Thank you. I missed that despite looking for it.

> Corporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy.

Really? I thought the journalists did that.

> Americans are eager for innovative and independent journalism that offers lively, unflinching coverage free from cant, conflicts of interest and moral equivocation.

You don't say...