“Employees with a last working day of today will be contacted by the People team soon” is just such an insane line that sounds straight out of Brazil (or Logan’s Run) and I can’t stop thinking about it. The weirdly capitalized “People team,” the ominous “will be contacted ... soon,” the bizarre sentence construction of “Employees with a last working day of today” to refer to people who are being fired with immediate effect. It’s like staring at some Lovecraftian horror that slowly drives you mad.
An outstanding analysis from a "generally early/mid career" blogger, but to fully appreciate what we've lost with the implosion of SI you have to be an old fart like me. In the days when the magazine held some of the best sports writing to ever appear in print (insert Swimsuit Edition joke here), the arrival of a new issue in your mailbox was a treat you looked forward to each week. For those of you too young to remember, those were the days when even the NCAA men's basketball championship game was telecast on tape delay at midnight. SI dominated the field of sports reporting with real sophistication and class, two qualities in scarce supply today (I'm looking at you, Stephen A Smith). Twenty-first century technology has brought us a wealth of niche media coverage, but it's also brought a race to the bottom in sports reporting. Thank you for your attention; this is Crotchety Curmudgeon Dave Zimny signing off!
Because I'm Old, I grew up having the daily newspaper delivered, and multiple magazines in my home, including Time and Ms. As I grew up, I subscribed to my own magazines, including Seventeen, Mademoiselle and Glamour, along with EW and Premiere and People in the mix.
I tried really hard to get my kids (20 and 22) into magazines, my daughter had American Girl and they shared Zoobooks. And that was the end of it. I offered various titles throughout the years, and even tried Sports Illustrated for my son, but they never took to the habit of a daily or monthly read (my daughter was a book reader, my son only for school).
Magazines and newspapers will die off when we do, because Gen Z is just not interested. I do the Mom Thing of cutting out articles when they are home, or screenshotting links when they are not. They humor me, but they are minimally interested. My sister in law wanted to get them online subscriptions to a newspaper and I told her they wouldn't use it. She asked them and they said no thanks. My hope is as they mature they'll pick a real news source and follow them online, it's better than nothing.
What's supposedly so bad about supporting Ansarallah in the context of their current state as the only people outside of Palestine actually doing anything concrete to possibly stop the gebnocide? Are you just trying to shame girls for thinking the one dude is hot or something?
I'm glad you all are here and watching this closely. There are a lot of people working on solutions to this problem, but (rather ironically... or not) the mainstream media is not covering it.
As a fellow beginner/intermediate journalist, I would love to hear your perspective on community media startups like Documenters or revitalization efforts like the American Journalism Project. Is there a future for a different kind of news org. that prioritizes media accessibility, literacy, and participation?
“Employees with a last working day of today will be contacted by the People team soon” is just such an insane line that sounds straight out of Brazil (or Logan’s Run) and I can’t stop thinking about it. The weirdly capitalized “People team,” the ominous “will be contacted ... soon,” the bizarre sentence construction of “Employees with a last working day of today” to refer to people who are being fired with immediate effect. It’s like staring at some Lovecraftian horror that slowly drives you mad.
An outstanding analysis from a "generally early/mid career" blogger, but to fully appreciate what we've lost with the implosion of SI you have to be an old fart like me. In the days when the magazine held some of the best sports writing to ever appear in print (insert Swimsuit Edition joke here), the arrival of a new issue in your mailbox was a treat you looked forward to each week. For those of you too young to remember, those were the days when even the NCAA men's basketball championship game was telecast on tape delay at midnight. SI dominated the field of sports reporting with real sophistication and class, two qualities in scarce supply today (I'm looking at you, Stephen A Smith). Twenty-first century technology has brought us a wealth of niche media coverage, but it's also brought a race to the bottom in sports reporting. Thank you for your attention; this is Crotchety Curmudgeon Dave Zimny signing off!
When Discourse and Defector are the new definition of "legacy brands" we will then be free.
Gay brain parasites WHEN
Because I'm Old, I grew up having the daily newspaper delivered, and multiple magazines in my home, including Time and Ms. As I grew up, I subscribed to my own magazines, including Seventeen, Mademoiselle and Glamour, along with EW and Premiere and People in the mix.
I tried really hard to get my kids (20 and 22) into magazines, my daughter had American Girl and they shared Zoobooks. And that was the end of it. I offered various titles throughout the years, and even tried Sports Illustrated for my son, but they never took to the habit of a daily or monthly read (my daughter was a book reader, my son only for school).
Magazines and newspapers will die off when we do, because Gen Z is just not interested. I do the Mom Thing of cutting out articles when they are home, or screenshotting links when they are not. They humor me, but they are minimally interested. My sister in law wanted to get them online subscriptions to a newspaper and I told her they wouldn't use it. She asked them and they said no thanks. My hope is as they mature they'll pick a real news source and follow them online, it's better than nothing.
What's supposedly so bad about supporting Ansarallah in the context of their current state as the only people outside of Palestine actually doing anything concrete to possibly stop the gebnocide? Are you just trying to shame girls for thinking the one dude is hot or something?
Equating support Ansarallah with supporting Andrew Tate is some peak lib bullshit. If your goal with this blog post was to lose a loyal subscriber ...
I'm glad you all are here and watching this closely. There are a lot of people working on solutions to this problem, but (rather ironically... or not) the mainstream media is not covering it.
As a fellow beginner/intermediate journalist, I would love to hear your perspective on community media startups like Documenters or revitalization efforts like the American Journalism Project. Is there a future for a different kind of news org. that prioritizes media accessibility, literacy, and participation?