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The news media—electronic or print—are the equivalent of candy and soda: fun to eat, but hardly appropriate to live on.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
The End of News - The Atlantic
The End of News — The Atlantic
NEWS AS OBJECTS: THE MATERIALITY OF HANDWRITTEN NEWSLETTERS
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Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, licentiousness, torture, crimes of princes, crimes of nations, individual crimes, an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity.
And it’s this disgusting aperitif that the civilized man consumes at breakfast each morning … I do not understand ho
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
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The paper, in other words, did not merely cover the news—it created it.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Meanwhile, publications, still burdened with relics of a bygone era, like copy desks, fact checkers, human resource departments, and health care plans, find themselves locked in a losing battle against a nimbler opponent, one with none of the checks and balances that gum up the production of hot takes.