Drop Site is not a simple “substack blog.” It’s a new project created and run by journalists/founders from The Intercept who parted ways because of their mismanagement. Everyone including the journalist who shared this article has extensive experience as a professional journalist and bylines with major publications.

Is Time a blog because it runs on Wordpress?

I’m with you here. News sites will mirror this to confirm its legitimacy, and that should be linked, not the substack.

People don’t like it, but man, I would love it if Lemmy preserves information hygiene as it grows.

Substack is not a blogging platform. You can host a blog using Substack, but not every site built using Substack is a blog.

Dropsitenews is clearly not a blog. That should be immediately evident if you open the website. The about-page also clearly explains how they are an independent news organization with reputable journalists working for it. Even MBFC classifies them as a news organization.

If your argument is "it's a substack website so it's a blog, but a completely identical-looking website that's not built using substack isn't a blog, so it's allowed", then you're not arguing along the lines of rule 1, you're arguing along the lines of an unwritten rule that is supposed to help reinforce rule 1. If so, it should be explained in the sidebar. The post as-is does not violate rule 1 in any reasonable interpretation. If you have a different argumentation as to why Dropsitenews is a blog, you should provide it so that people know what to expect from the mod team.

This is an absolutely braindead lazy take.

The same professional journalists who've worked at these big media corporations have used the substack platform to open up sites in droves so they can focus on more niche topics, or just escape the censorship of owners and advertisers.

If you think that legitimate news can only come from a company owned by billionaires, then you're wrong.

Then Hosam was not a journalist but a terrorist. Because he writes for a news organisation which publishes their articles using Substack.

Thank you for censoring a journalist who died to get the word out, using made up rules. You must be very proud of yourself.

Terminal liberal brain. PTB.

There are different links that have his last article.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-shabat-journalist-killed-gaza-last-article

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hossam-shabat-s-last-article/ar-AA1BDeXT

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/outrage-as-israel-kills-another-truthteller/

Blog sites aren’t news.

Do you mean "aren't news sites?"

Because not being a news site and not being news are two different things.

It is not a rule. Nowhere in the sidebar of the worldnews subreddit does it say that SubStack is not a valid source. Nor does it say anything about "blogs". It says

Post news articles only

And this is most definitely a news article.

JordanLund is using his moderator powers to selectively decide what is and what is not "news" at his own whims.

Thanks for that! I would have done it, but I saw too much abuse on reddit where mods would remove something only to add it themselves because... ? They wanted the imaginary internet points? 🤔 I never got that but saw it way, way too often.

Fuckin' mods... Wait, what? 😉

The #2 post on the current "top 6 hours" view is criticizing Israel. He also posted in this article offering some other sources that were more reliable that would be good for this story, and all the people complaining ignored them. Eventually one of them was reposted (somehow), and is still up. Shocker.