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I was hoping to see a Substack model that allowed readers to create their own virtual and interactive electronic newspaper from a variety of content providers where there is a simplified subscription fee and service. It is a very reader-confusing taxonomy to have sources like The Dispatch, that have multiple content providers and its own aggregate site Dispatch.com, and then this is all also connected to Substack. It sounds like Bari Weiss is doing the same.

Frankly, the Dispatch isn't a good fit for Substack as they are just NYT clones for the most part doing their woke work and blocking commenters like myself who don't subscribe to their left orthodoxy (no... there are no real open and objective voices in that hive). However, Bari was my first subscription to Substack and I hope she too isn't leaving the Substack mother ship to be yet another separate click-through aggregate provider.

This isn't quite the "one-stop shopping" I was hoping for to get in depth news and information. Maybe there is a user interface model that will work well enough, but today the navigation map is getting very complex and confusing.

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