In the other place - X - Ross Barkan is assailing Jesse Singal for his tenacious and courageous exposure of the fast-tracking of sex reassignment for children, mainly gay and lesbian, without any solid medical basis.
He is trying to argue that good journalism should not happen if some bigots might want to deploy it for nefarious ends.
I just want to say that in my view, Jesse’s reporting has been scrupulous and prophetic and courageous. If Pulitzers were still given on the basis of merit instead of ideology, he’d have racked up several.
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Substack is in danger of collapsing under its own weight. There are just too many worthy accounts here now to expect readers to cough up $5 for every writer they want to read. There needs to be some kind of subscription/revenue sharing mechanism so subscribers aren’t constantly asked for money for every damned article they’d like to read. Sell tokens. Punchcards. Come on, SS, INNOVATE ALREADY.
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I met an older man in a café today who at a certain point asked me to look up the book he had written on Amazon. Later, on the bus, I looked at the reviews, and one of them said “I read this after I met the author in a café and he told me to look up his book”.
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