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Michael J. Totten
Personal blog · michaeltotten.compoliticshistory
Michael J. Totten's personal blog at michaeltotten.com covers politics and history. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the site of journalist Michael J. Totten, described by one commenter as travelling to warzones and being independent. Comments don't discuss specific posts or judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Do you know why I pay so little? That's because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market Yes, but also the communist architecture. Those buildings are easier to wire and the way they're managed makes it easier to get a permit. It's the same in Poland, if you live in one of those atrocious apartment blocks[1], you'll have a pick of three, or even seven various ISPs but move to the suburbs and it's suddenly either the…
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on “Net neutrality”That fails to explain why the newspaper business has been declining since before the web was a factor. It's been in decline for a very long time. I've connected (like many around here) to many alternative news sources, and the fact is that newspapers have become superficial, fad-driven, fail to report on anything if it's "hard" (witness the lack of staffing of foreign offices), and incredibly beholden to narrative,…
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on “France's birthday gift to 18y-olds: A subscription to the newspaper of their choice”http://www.michaeltotten.com/ this journalist travels all over warzones and is independant.
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on “The Newspaper Industry Is Dying Before Our Very Eyes”
