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Instead of another round of "online media salary discourse" have you considered reading this incredible package of short essays......published in The Baffler
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Let's just call autonomous pods and rideshares what they are - anti-social transit.
Designed to keep you in your own bubble, never experiencing the good mental friction that keeps critical thinking and social skills alive.
In ATL, it's giving the Monorail ep. of the Simpsons.
harper's gets the best essays because they are basically the only surviving publication that pays writers a shit ton of money to do something absolutely insane
(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase @washingtonpost's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive.
The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.
More in this week's issue of Regulator...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. After nearly fifty years under wraps, the film conceived and filmed by the legendary William Greaves and restored/directed by David Greaves, spotlights footage from a 1972 gathering of luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Coming soon to theaters.
Not every journalist can be their own brand, business, and distribution channel. Its unsustainable for journalists AND readers
We saw this with streaming. Fragmentation and subscription overload drove costs higher than the bundled systems they replaced
That could happen to news
It’s not as simple as “everyone should just start a Substack.”
That’s a surface-level answer to a structural problem, and it ignores how media ecosystems, labor protections, and audiences actually work.
It’s a bandaid, not a serious solution.
The Hazel Scott Show lasted three months because she was blacklisted after appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hazel was only 30 years old and a superstar at the time. She lived another 31 years, but her career never really recovered from being exiled.
Jazz at Lincoln Center announced today that, after nearly 40 years of visionary leadership, @wyntonmarsalis will transition from his current role at JALC.
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i want people to understand that what you see on this website is not real life. dudes like this guy are far more representative of the median voter than people who keep spamming "yeah i voted for this" here and get 30k botted likes.