Dr. Richardson confounds many of the media’s assumptions about this moment. That’s true of Never Trump Republicans pushed out of conservative media, whose publications, The Dispatch and The Bulwark, are the largest brands on the platform (just above and below Dr. Richardson’s revenue, respectively.) Dr. Richardson happened into this frontier of the media business pretty much by chance. She seemed intensely uncomfortable talking about the money her work is bringing in. “Ordinary men should, Hammond explained, have no say over policies, because they would demand a greater share of the wealth they produced,” she wrote.

Source: New York Times December 28, 2020 00:22 UTC