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dghlsakjgtoday at 8:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

You should look into the economist a bit more.

For one, they have no advertisers to keep happy.

Edit: I stand corrected. A better way to phrase it is that their business model does not rely on advertising, and they traditionally did not run ads until recently.


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ceejayoztoday at 8:35 PM

The top of economist.com has a 250px high `adComponent_adcontainer__eooQr` div.

My Pihole blocks its content, but I have a guess as to what it is.

They seem to think they have advertisers. https://myaccount.economist.com/s/article/How-do-I-advertise...

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anonymarstoday at 9:01 PM

Do they need advertisers for garbage like this? Just another entry in the decades-long disinformation campaign

"Who bears responsibility for reducing the carbon footprint of those products? Shell, the companies that pumped the oil, the carmakers whose engines burn the fuel, or the people who drive the vehicles? The answer is probably a combination of all of them.

To heap the blame for global warming on the oil industry alone would be to oversimplify the emissions problem. True, companies like Shell could have been more open about evidence of the risks from climate change, and they sometimes lobby against steps to reduce emissions. But everyone bears responsibility."

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/07/06/shells-boss-de...

jmclnxtoday at 8:43 PM

I remember that mag with that name from the 80s seeing it on news stands. Is this a different one and the other one closed ?