Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

Re:Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge? by 0x138d5 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:50AM (#22934054)

When opening metroeastsun.com one is greeted with the following:

>Help us continue our fight against cronyism, corruption and profligate government borrowing & spending.

Well okay then.

2 things stood out for me which raised questions as a non-American.

1) The quality of the site - are the websites of local US papers usually this decently made? Even if it's just a random WP theme. I was under the impression that they were still perpetually 10 years behind the curve. See https://www.fredericknewspost.com/ for example.

2) The real estate section looks fishy as all hell. Why would they include something like that?

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Re:Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge? by Balgair on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:14AM (#22935615)

As to 1), yes, this is about par for the course. Most local news sites are of near this quality.

As to 2), I've no clue. Maybe they are scraping the MLS feeds or Redfin's site in order to appear more legitimate. Honestly, it does feel more legitimate to me as real estate is very serious business. Fake news of c. 2016 didn't have a real estate section per my remembering of them.

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