If you think long enough about why everything online seems so much worse than it used to be, eventually you'll get bored.

"The average US subscriber pays almost $1000 a year for streaming subscriptions" screams a ZDNET headline summarizing the results of a relatively recent survey on American streaming habits.

I had the occasion recently to reflect on the urgency of The Newsagent's core mission: The revival of "third places."

Sure, you could choose to read that familiar proverb in its common interpretation that the absence of news is a positive thing. I, however, choose to view it in maximalist terms: There is no such thing as "good" news.

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