Small-town America fights for its life

#1

Post by whatami » Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 7:56 PM UTC

Small-town America fights for its life
washingtonexaminer.com

Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#2

Post by tabtab » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 12:11 AM UTC

There is no article there. Is there a Magic Button I'm missing, other than "subscribe"?

It seems content is also fighting for its life.

Here's a similarly-name article that's open-able, at least to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/opinion/rural-america-eco...

Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#3

Post by cmdshiftf4 » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 3:39 AM UTC

tabtab wrote: post #2

There is no article there. Is there a Magic Button I'm missing, other than "subscribe"? It seems content is also fighting for its life. Here's a similarly-name article that's open-able, at least to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/opinion/rural-america-eco...

Working fine for me on Firefox 70.0.1 w/ ublock, noscript, privacy badger and a bunch of other privacy extensions enabled.

Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#4

Post by tabtab » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #3

tabtab wrote: post #2

There is no article there. Is there a Magic Button I'm missing, other than "subscribe"? It seems content is also fighting for its life. Here's a similarly-name article that's open-able, at least to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/opinion/rural-america-eco...

Working fine for me on Firefox 70.0.1 w/ ublock, noscript, privacy badger and a bunch of other privacy extensions enabled.

It's working now for me. I've seen that multiple times lately: an article is intermittently hidden. It may be marketing games whereby they make it open to attract links from commenting forums such as Reddit and this one, and then switch on "subscriber only" mode when traffic comes. If intentional, that's evil in my book.

Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#5

Post by zrail » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:40 PM UTC

No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.

Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#6

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:44 PM UTC

zrail wrote: post #5

No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.

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Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#7

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

tabtab wrote: post #4

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Working fine for me on Firefox 70.0.1 w/ ublock, noscript, privacy badger and a bunch of other privacy extensions enabled.

It's working now for me. I've seen that multiple times lately: an article is intermittently hidden. It may be marketing games whereby they make it open to attract links from commenting forums such as Reddit and this one, and then switch on "subscriber only" mode when traffic comes. If intentional, that's evil in my book.

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Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#8

Post by dfsegoat » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

zrail wrote: post #5

No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.

Neutral source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/

Re: Small-town America fights for its life

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Post by revicon » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

TLDR;

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Re: Small-town America fights for its life

#10

Post by zrail » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

dfsegoat wrote: post #8

zrail wrote: post #5

No judgement on this particular opinion piece, but just for sake of clarity in case people are unaware, the Washington Examiner has a rather pronounced conservative and Republican bias.

Neutral source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/

Thanks. I should have linked a source.