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Matthew Grimm in the Des Moines Register writing on racism in his home state of Iowa: There is an absolute correlation between insisting you live in utopia and demonizing people for pointing out hard realities that it’s not.

Posted on 25 September 2020 and filed under links, outbound, small

Stephanie Foo: I’ve met so many incredible women of color who’ve left their newsrooms because they burned out from this job. These are women who survived war zones, worked 10-hour days for years, didn’t take vacations, had three internships going simultaneously, and sat stone-faced in response to aggressive and outright racist editors. And yes, they […]

Posted on 23 September 2020 and filed under links, outbound, small

I’m linking to the discussion in a forum rather than the piece itself because I find people’s reactions more interesting, and there’s lots of good thoughts in the comments. Myself: It’s cool to see the old favourites shook up (The Beatles/Stones/Dylan much lower), especially since I used lists like this to shape my own musical […]

Posted on 23 September 2020 and filed under outbound, small

Interesting interview that challenges some assumptions. “So if we are going to object to harassment and threats, as we surely should, we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening, who is most profoundly affected, and whether it is tolerated by those who should be opposing it.”

Posted on 23 September 2020 and filed under outbound, small

Robert Lloyd in the LA Times: It’s only speculation on my part, but that its origins are modest rather than muscular, in the industrial sense, may have been to the series’ ultimate advantage, keeping it free from Hollywood glossiness and crushing expectations. If the show had been picked up by ABC or AMC or HBO, […]

Posted on 21 September 2020 and filed under outbound, small

Schitt’s Creek on Twitter: With Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Dan Levy and Annie Murphy winning their #Emmys tonight, that means our little Canadian show is the first comedy OR drama to ~ever~ sweep all four acting categories, and that is absolutely wild So well-deserved. Not just acting but also writing, directing and outstanding comedy series. […]

Posted on 20 September 2020 and filed under outbound, small

This is very good.

Posted on 19 June 2019 and filed under outbound, small

Family photographs defy the cultural expectations of what an early 20th century ‘Indian’ is supposed to look like.

Posted on 19 February 2018 and filed under misc, small

I’ve seen a few comparisons lately of Facebook to smoking, as if it’s something that experts agree is bad for your health and we really should give up. But I think it’s more like a eating factory-farmed meat. You have the general sense that it’s bad, and if you really looked into how it gets […]

Posted on 13 February 2018 and filed under small, social media, thoughts

This is a detailed read of Facebook’s reckoning with foreign powers, powers of abuse and power over media and politics. In the end I’m left asking a question I saw posed elsewhere recently: is it ethical to use Facebook?

Posted on 12 February 2018 and filed under journalism, links, media, outbound, small, social media

Supriya Dwivedi on Justin Trudeau’s “Peoplekind” comment being taken out of context for controversy: “It’s one thing if outlets like Fox News are jumping on the prime minister and have no qualms over misrepresenting a situation in order to advance a false narrative of political correctness gone too far, or if someone like Piers Morgan […]

Posted on 8 February 2018 and filed under links, media, outbound, small

”To be clear, it’s not brave to quit Twitter, or righteous (I’m still on Facebook, which is just a differently shaped moral stockyard), or noteworthy. Quitting Twitter is just a thing that you can do. I mention it only because there was a time when I didn’t think it was a thing that I could do, and then I did it, and now my life is better.”

Posted on 6 February 2018 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Alex Hern: ”Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t use Facebook like you or me. The 33-year-old chief executive has a team of 12 moderators dedicated to deleting comments and spam from his page, according to Bloomberg. He has a ‘handful’ of employees who help him write his posts and speeches and a number of professional photographers who take […]

Posted on 5 February 2018 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Because so much of this week’s newsletter was focused on one topic, I broke it out into a separate blog post. If you like the idea of getting it all together together, you can subscribe here. Alright, that’s it except to tell you that while you’re into the podcast rabbithole, I’m actually going to be spending […]

Posted on 3 February 2018 and filed under letters, links, newsletter, small

“Forget those worries that the podcast bubble would burst the minute anyone actually got a closer look: It seems like podcast listeners really are the hyper-engaged, super-supportive audiences that everyone hoped.“ Hooray!

Posted on 2 February 2018 and filed under links, main, media, outbound, radio, small