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Dozens of newspapers across the country, owned by Reddit’s majority shareholder, Advance Publications, simultaneously shut down their comment sections. by Phiremin
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Phiremin 2 points ago +2 / -0

Someone actually charted mentions of “woke” words in The NY Times over time.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/the-nytimes-is-woke.html

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Dozens of newspapers across the country, owned by Reddit’s majority shareholder, Advance Publications, simultaneously shut down their comment sections. by Phiremin
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Phiremin 6 points ago +6 / -0

This says the Newhouse family still owns it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

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Phiremin 3 points ago +3 / -0

I was a regular at NJ.com under Glavlit and “woke” college student NYU_Ethan. I really miss Ethan. That was a lot of fun.

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Phiremin 1 point ago +1 / -0

I haven’t seen anyone report it as a story, but it’s true. Someone should do a story on it.

Here are a few example. Different papers. All the same story. All the same day. All owned by Advance Publications (Reddit’s majority shareholder)

NJO.com https://www.nj.com/news/2020/02/njcom-removing-comments-from-site-on-thursday.html

Syracuse.com https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/02/syracusecom-to-end-reader-comments-on-website-beginning-thursday.html

Cleveland.com https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/02/open-commenting-at-clevelandcom-is-going-away-heres-why.html

Staten Island Advance https://www.silive.com/news/2020/02/silive-to-end-commenting-on-website-beginning-thursday.html

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