Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Thaddeus

McCotter, my colleague and friend at the American Greatness writing about the

legacy media which is struggling nationally. First it was local

legacy media that was struggling. Local newspapers no longer

able to live on classified ads, all gone the way of the internet. Then local newspapers no longer

to rely on reporting because it had gone the way of the internet. And now

national papers struggling as well. Except the New York Times.

The New York Times has had a successful model of maintaining a position

against the former President Trump that makes it very consistently oversubscribed on the internet.

Washington Post, however, has followed the same model and not successful.

Recently Mr. Bezos, owns the Washington Post mandated some cutbacks and I'm

told they were losing a hundred million a year who knows if it's action

action accurate or not I'm just mentioning. Now I'm told and who knows if it's

accurate or not they're only losing 35 million a year so there's no one formula.

However legacy media in general is struggling. Why? Why should the Internet take over what

heretofore was seen as all the news that's fit to print.

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