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Jia Tolentino: The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year (The New Yorker)
Jia Tolentino: The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year (The New Yorker)
Hope is elusive, but it will return eventually. What I’m afraid of, this December, are the conditions that allow hope to take hold. I’m worried that the “worst year ever” feeling is half a condition of the Internet, of the way we experience the news as delivered through social media. Everything feels too intimate, too aggressive; the interfaces that were intended to cheerfully connect us to the world have instead spawned fear and alienation. I’m worried that this sense of relentless emotional bombardment will escalate no matter what’s in the news.
·newyorker.com·
Jia Tolentino: The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year (The New Yorker)
Maria Bustillos: How to Read the News (Popula)
Maria Bustillos: How to Read the News (Popula)
Most of what you’ll hear about is paid for by someone; benefits someone. If there is information that might hurt the reputation of anyone in power—their exercise of that power, or their ability to make money—massive resources will be spent to conceal it from you, divert your attention, change the subject.
·popula.com·
Maria Bustillos: How to Read the News (Popula)
Briahna Gray, Camille Baker: The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh (The Intercept)
Briahna Gray, Camille Baker: The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh (The Intercept)
Importantly, having “no recollection” of the night in question, or no “knowledge” of the alleged events is not the same as saying it didn’t happen — especially since Ford never alleged that anyone but Kavanaugh and Judge witnessed the assault. So why would a judge, someone presumably familiar with the implications of what it often means when a witness avers they “do not recall,” so grossly mischaracterize the nature of those statements?
·theintercept.com·
Briahna Gray, Camille Baker: The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh (The Intercept)
Jack McDonald: Joseph Kony and Crowdsourced Intervention (Kings of War)
Jack McDonald: Joseph Kony and Crowdsourced Intervention (Kings of War)
Joseph Kony deserves to be put in cuffs and dragged before the ICC. Raising the profile of the heinous nature of the guy’s crimes is awesome. The idea that popular opinion can be leveraged with viral marketing to induce foreign military intervention is really, really dangerous. It is immoral to try and sell a sanitised vision of foreign intervention that neglects the fact that people will die as a result.
·kingsofwar.org.uk·
Jack McDonald: Joseph Kony and Crowdsourced Intervention (Kings of War)
The Daily Beast: The Dish: Who Is Behind Occupy Wall Street?
The Daily Beast: The Dish: Who Is Behind Occupy Wall Street?
‘Protests should do three things: they should express anger, through marches and targeted civil disobedience, at a particular political or social situation. They should give people the opportunity to see that other people, even people different from themselves, share that anger. And they should provide a vision of how life would be better if the world were different. Occupy Wall Street is doing all three of those things.’
·andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com·
The Daily Beast: The Dish: Who Is Behind Occupy Wall Street?
Clay Shirky: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
Clay Shirky: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
“The thing I really want to impress on my students is that the commercial case for news only matters if the profits are used to subsidize reporting the public can see, and that civic virtue may be heart-warming, but it won’t keep the lights on, if the lights cost more than cash on hand. Both sides of the equation have to be solved.”
·shirky.com·
Clay Shirky: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
Slog: Live Slogging Weiner's Press Conference
Slog: Live Slogging Weiner's Press Conference
Dan Savage live-blogs the Weiner apology press conference. “A reporter asks if Weiner was drinking or using drugs—if he has a problem—because only a man who has a drinking problem or a drug problem could get caught up in something like this. Do reporters know what men are like? (And lots of women too?) This desire to pathologize behavior that isn't sick—that is, indeed, very common and human and completely and instantly understandable—is itself pathological. Weiner does not have a problem. He has a computer. The whole world has Weiner's problem: same old horniness, brand new box.”
·slog.thestranger.com·
Slog: Live Slogging Weiner's Press Conference
Vanity Fair: The 25 Best News Photographs
Vanity Fair: The 25 Best News Photographs
In honor of *Vanity Fair’*s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors flexed their list-making muscles to determine the 25 best of everything—from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners. Herewith, the top 25 news photographs.
·vanityfair.com·
Vanity Fair: The 25 Best News Photographs
Paste: Music News: Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse
Paste: Music News: Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse
Where will you be? I'd not mind being here. "I want this to end when I'm on top, so I'm planning my final show on December 21, 2012. It's when the Mayan calendar ends. It's the day when solids become liquids and liquids become plasmas." "I want it to be a stage production, but one where the lines become blurry between reality and complete stage me...I want it to be miserable and equally fantastic. I want the best of both worlds."
·pastemagazine.com·
Paste: Music News: Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse