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A very dumb and easy question. NYT and WaPo have hundreds of journalists, so the average would be in the tens of thousands. You cannot compare an individual and a corporation in such a way. And yes, the most popular journalist today is exactly Tucker and he is not that much more thrustworthy than NYT/WaPo, at least to me.

P.S. While I agree with Pool only ~60% of the time, he has around 1.5M on his other channel.

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> A very dumb and easy question. NYT and WaPo have hundreds of journalists, so the average would be in the tens of thousands.

This doesn't follow. Just as an example, Maggie Haberman (an NYT reporter) has more than 1.6 million twitter followers, around 2x Tim's and more than he has subs on any of his channels.

(More broadly, there are a number of junior reporters who don't have big followings at the NYT and other conventional institutions, but there are also a number of very well known journalists who have large followings for their specific content).

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