Newsbreak-Misunderstood?

Thinking Big While Thinking Small is Breaking New Ground

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I submitted another story to Newsbreak, about the Pine Tree Zone, coming up for renewal at the end of this year. The mainstream media is not talking about the Pine Tree Zone yet. My story covers how the Pine Tree Zone legislation was “managed” the last time it was up for renewal in 2018.

Last time, in 2018, during the time leading up to the vote on the Pine Tree Zone legislation, the mainstream media featured testimonies from those who benefit from the Pine Tree Zone tax exemptions, paid for by the rest of the economy, but very little input from the paying sector of the economy.

In the first few hours after the Pine Tree Zone story was published, there were no impressions and so I decided to not even check the status. One has to have 10 articles published (and 200 followers) before one can be on paid status, so at least the article would count as a published article.

However this morning I unintentionally clicked on the stats to find that the Pine Tree Zone story had …