** 18-Jul-2019 Breitbart
mps92 wrote:
> John did you ever contact the folks at Breitbart? All you'd have
> to do is publish an article a day (like you basically do here),
> and they wouldn't have to pay you an exorbitant amount of money -
> but certainly enough to stave off fate.
> Your articles do pretty well on Breitbart despite being hard to
> find (not typically posted on the front page for very long, if at
> all). The feedback from the comments is typically very
> positive. That's actually where I originally found you, since I
> always looked for your articles.
> The people on Breitbart completely understand the magnitude of the
> Chinese conflict and the threat that China poses. It would
> surprise me if Breitbart wasn't at all interested in hiring
> you.
Don't make me laugh.
I posted over 3,000 articles on Breitbart since 2010. When I started,
they had almost no international coverage and knew absolutely nothing
about what was going on in the world.
I ended up training Frances Martel and the others doing the
international coverage.
And yet Martel always made it clear to me that she would never pay me
a penny.
But then last month when I wanted to run the article announcing my
book, Martel wrote to me that I would have to do an "ad buy" before
they'd run that article.
That was insulting and humiliating enough, but there's more. Last
year, when I posted the article announcing my Iran book, I estimate
that it resulted in 10-20 additional sales, so it was worth about $50
to me, give or take. I would have expected the same result from the
announcement of my China book.
I don't know how much this "ad buy" would have cost -- probably
hundreds or thousands of dollars -- but it's pretty clear to me that
running an ad on Breitbart is almost completely worthless. In fact,
if you look at the ads that they do run, they're almost all garbage.
So I wrote thousands of articles for Martel, she got ad revenue from
the ads that ran alongside my articles, I educated her and her staff
about international events, and she refused to pay me a penny. And
then she insulted me further by demanding that I pay for a completely
worthless "ad buy," after all I'd done for her, over a period of many
years. Why am I not surprised?
When Obama was president, she was happy to have me around because my
analyses often contradicted Obama's policies. Now she's saying "screw
you" because, among other reasons, my analyses don't always agree with
"official" Breitbart ideology in the Trump administration.
So no, I don't think I'm going to have anything more to do with
Breitbart.