Okay. Gonna get shit from everyone for this. But:

It strikes me that one of the problems faced by left-leaning media not faced by the right is that a lot of the potential readers see it as a betrayal when publications run pieces they disagree with.

And that anger always seems greater than the positive feelings about pieces they *do* agree with. So all left publications are doomed to be seen as traitors by most people most of the time.

I have no proposed solution to this, but as a reader, a former commissioning editor AND someone who naively hopes to continue getting paid for writing, I feel very depressed.

This train of thought is the result of seeing different people saying "well, no wonder the Guardian is in trouble when they published X", but where X is a wide range of things, some of which contradict the other things.

This is a fair point, mind you. There are so many more publications on the right that readers can pick and choose a bit. On the left the Guardian, NS and Mirror have to be everything - and they can't. https://twitter.com/AScribbledEagle/status/1283480822666887170?s=19

And with that I'm going somewhere your tweets can't hurt me: the pub.