marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

news suffering under advertising boycotts

January 8, 2025

source: www.wsj.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites. WSJ, so use a un-paywaller like archive.ph:

Forty percent of the Washington Post’s material is deemed “unsafe” at any given time, said Johanna Mayer-Jones, the paper’s chief advertising officer, referencing a study the company did about a year ago. “The revenue implications of that are significant.”

Blunt tools, are the problem. Amusing, but no wonder paywalls are more and more frequent.

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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