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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"
vox.comtends to overwhelm and numb people while simultaneously defining deviancy down and normalizing the unacceptable. Outrage gives way to outrage fatigue, which gives way to the sort of cynicism and weariness that empowers those disseminating the lies.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
For years, the New Right has had little political representation and been treated as beneath notice by the mainstream press. This is no longer an option, especially in a social media world. Its members are smart, they are organized, and, most importantly, they do have a very coherent worldview. Illiterately tweeting “YOUR RACIST” over and over at o
... See moreMichael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Asian American Twitter (which I just discovered is a thing) is very angry about @AndrewYang's latest op-ed saying the best way for AAs to tackle discrimination is to dig in to "American-ness" and fight for a cure.
Unsurprisingly, he got "Cathy Newmanned."
https://t.co/bfJZmjluF9
Melissa Chenx.comCommentary: Are you willing to pay for news? The future of journalism may depend on it
Brett Sherrickfortune.com
Sullivan and Weiss weren’t merely the victims of some ethereal struggle between the forces of free speech and ideological censorship: they were the collateral damage of shifting media business models. And there will be lots more of them before this drama finishes.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
“Words,” John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” That was always my attitude toward opinion writing. Newspaper columns should be controversial, rubbing some people the wrong way, because the main point is to get people to rethink their assumptions. I used to say, only half... See more
Departing the New York Times
Curtailing Affirmative Action Is a Blow Against a Rising Generation ...
Ronald Brownsteintheatlantic.com