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Why We Need Complicated Stories
“My generation is too focused on easy stories: vituperative takedowns, lists of .gifs, and flippant blog posts,” writes seminarian N.C. Harrison. I re-read The Colorado Kid by Stephen King a couple...
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5 Things That Make the Internet Awful, And Why You Or I Might Be One of Them
Historian Oliver Lee Bateman examines one of our most dysfunctional relationships. I haven’t looked at the stats in a while, but I’m guessing any listicle with more than 50 words is “tl;dr.” With...
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‘Humans Of New York’ Isn’t Clickbait – It’s Why The Internet Exists
Brandon Stanton’s project is a lot more than clickbait, says Anastasia Sasewich. _____ By Anastasia Sasewich. In perhaps the only instance of meta-pseudo-clickbaiting yet, Gawker writer Daniel...
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15 Things I Hate About Being a Writer
Like all the best writers, Cabot O’Callaghan has a love-hate relationship with his craft. ___ My writing is usually unbearably raw. Dark. It’s blood on the sidewalk. Too much heavy, man. If you judged...
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One Weird Trick To Remember People’s Names
Meeting countless people each day can make it hard to keep names straight. You’ll be amazed at how well this works. — “I’m not good with names.” How many times have you heard it? At parties,...
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What Are We Supposed to ‘Believe’ About Facts Now? Does Real News Matter...
What role does the Fourth Estate have in our new “post-fact” era of partisan politics? Watch as BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and CNN’s Brian Stelter parse words, phrases, and editing judgment calls in relation...
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Clickbait Material: Popular Science
Embed from Getty Images — We are living in a golden age of popular science. Multiple television and radio programmes, best-selling books, well-attended science festivals around the world – all reveal...
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How To Call Out Sexism in a Way That Actually Does Something
Embed from Getty Images — Okay, so everyone agrees we’re supposed to call out sexist behavior when we see it, correct? When we see a co-worker’s ass being slapped and referred to as “breakfast,” we...
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Sorry to Break It to You, But the Internet is a Lie
— This New York Magazine article entitled “How much of the internet is fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually” is long, but worth wading through if you want to understand the world we live in....
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