I Subscribe to NEWSLETTERS, Not Advertisements
Photo credit: Pixabay I’m a big e-newsletter person. Anytime I come across the opportunity to subscribe to a newsletter, then, if it’s something that caters to my interests, I’ll sign up. I also sign up to a lot of author newsletters, as a way to support fellow authors. But this morning, I had to unsubscribe from a popular newsletter I have been receiving for a while. The reason? The whole purpose of that issue of the newsletter was to share about the owner’s most recent podcast, which was basically to talk people into buying his book, paying for his coaching services, or signing up for one of his online courses. Never mind that the podcast summary I read beneath his podcast was just that: A summary. This was discouraging to someone who is deaf and must rely on text beneath a podcast to know what was being said since I can’t HEAR a podcast that doesn’t have closed captioning. The podcaster saying “you’ll get more information from watching the podcast” that I...