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Originally Posted by Rococo
As for Hanania's future, I doubt he has much of one. T
This is tangentially related to media, and an interesting topic. From what I can tell, his main source of income is his sub stack. I doubt being "outed" has been a positive thing for his career, and by the very fact he was posting op-eds in leftist MSM he obviously wanted to be part of that ecosystem, and it would seem those doors would be closed now. But he might still be making good money promoting himself on X and selling books and sub stack subscriptions. I really dont know.
I subscribe to Yglesias's substack, and it is something very reasonable ($10 a month or something in that ballpark) and Yglesias admits he is doing much much better financially through this avenue than his media career. I doubt Hanania has even close to the number of subscribers Yglesias does, but it might still be enough for him to have "a future."
Interestingly, your exposure to him is through leftist MSM hit pieces, so you wouldn't know this (or care). But on Twitter/X he has been EXTREMELY critical of right wing media, much more so than left wing media, so that would be an awkward career pivot if he tried to go that route.
The bottom line is that through Twitter/X, sub stack and of course right wing media, "the right" is constructing its own ecosystem so persons that have been shunned from The Establishment can still have careers. We are seeing something similar in "Hollywood" also. Of course where "the left" still has control is in banking and payment processing, but with people like Elon and Vivek showing interest in this area, even this may be temporary. Very interesting times, if nothing else.
As Hanania himself notes a lot, the main obstacle to this is that so much of the right, highlighted by Trump himself, is just unethical grifters. And if "the right" ever wants to really establish itself as legitimate, it needs a lot less grifting and a lot more competent, ethical people running the ship. At this point it is obvious BLM the organization was more or less just a grift; but the most notable aspect of this is that this is actually rare on the left, whereas on the right this is common, including almost everything Trump related.