A large portion of the Americans who will pay for news are rich
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I bought a subscription to The Onion in print. Have I made it?
This has been the case for as long as I can remember.
This was how newspapers worked when they were actually paper. Wealthy people got the big papers and regular people got the local town.
I donate to pbs, does that count? I get the pbs shows and get to support their programming
150k isn’t rich.
Yes it is
it is to me
3x the average salary in the US isnt rich lmao
Its not wealthy but its definitely rich by a long shot
When you consider that wages have stagnated for decades it’s not that crazy
What’s funny is, the author probably chose $150k as the cutoff for “rich” because it’s quite close to the top 25% of households.
A household with an income of $150k+ is in the top 27.6% of U.S. households according to 2025 census information if I copied and pasted right.