Culture
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A glimpse of the Republican Alternate Universe
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2 min read
There’s not believing something because it seems so wrong. There’s not believing because the wrong keeps happening. There’s believing because of precedent. And then there’s not believing again because the precedent is just too much. Tuesday night, the scales were tipped into lala land. After eight Republican debates, we have now found a list of…
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Phew! At least nobody got mauled…
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So a guy lets loose 56 exotic animals, including lions, tigers, grizzlies, and wolves in Zanesville, Ohio, near Columbus. This no joke. This is a true story. He kept extremely dangerous animals. At home! In a cage! Bengal flippin’ tigers! So the guy lets them loose, cuts the cages to keep anyone from getting them…
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Monday Mixtape: the love song
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Who among us hasn’t made a mixtape for someone they loved? Or at least were in love with at one point. It should come to nobody’s surprise that I’ve made a bunch of such mixtapes in my time and given them to…well, several…people. But, and this may sound cheesy, there is something about the mixtape for…
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It is not what we want
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“This notion that ‘These media companies are just giving us what the public wants!’ No. They’re giving us what the media companies want; they’re giving us what the advertisers want. And they’re packaging it in such a way as to make it sound like it is our fault; it’s not.” –Jennifer Pozner Giving people “what…
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The Gilded Age of Media
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When faced with something they find confusing, most journalists give up. They don’t do the real legwork of engaging the story. They write the “process story” instead. You’ve read the kind in which the author doesn’t actually write the story about the intended subject’s work, but how confusing that work is. They trot out tired…
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Mixtape Monday: meaningful song
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Personally, I like my music to mean something. And If I’m putting together a soundtrack, it has to include at least something seriously cool and pertinent to our lives at the time. So here it goes: Billy Bragg & Wilco covering Woody Guthrie’s “Christ for President”