#longformjournalism

[f0restpunk]

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[katabaticwind]

Some good reading

Collector's Weekly doesn't sound like the title of a magazine that would have interesting long form journalism, but it does.  

How collecting opium paraphernalia led a man to opium addiction

Mid-Century cooking: a rainbow of Jello and condensed soup

Vinegar Valentines: telling someone exactly how much you dislike them for Valentine's Day

Bill Cosby and his sweaters which bring back memories of the 1980s that I would be okay with forgetting.

[thanh-tan-blog]

Viva La Long-Form Journalism!

Just listened to Leonard Lopate's interview with Raney Aronson-Rath, senior producer for Frontline, and Steve Engelberg, managing editor at ProPublica. I'm really inspired by the kind of journalism they produce-- and their desire to cross platforms and figure out new ways of putting good storytelling out there. Hope to take some of the concepts they discuss and apply them to our work at The Texas Tribune! Here's the audio:

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[cooperottum]

A Movie Article for Friday

Top Gun landed directly in the cortexes of a generation of young moviegoers whose attention spans and narrative tastes were already being recalibrated by MTV and video games. That generation of 16-to-24-year-olds—the guys who felt the rush of Top Gun because it was custom-built to excite them—is now in its forties, exactly the age of many mid- and upper-midrange studio executives. And increasingly, it is their taste, their appetite, and the aesthetic of their late-'80s postadolescence that is shaping moviemaking. Which may be a brutally unfair generalization, but also leads to a legitimate question: Who would you rather have in charge—someone whose definition of a classic is Jaws or someone whose definition of a classic is Top Gun?

Mark Harris for GQ | source

I could have excerpted nearly any paragraph from this excellent little essay as a highlight. Do yourself a favor and sit down to enjoy a little Friday night long-form journalism.

[cooperottum]

Thought-provoking yet Depressing Read of the Evening

From a legal standpoint, the case will rest on the evolving notions of “consent,” and on the fact that intoxication can render null even a verbal consent to sex. It also falls into the body of case law that has emerged from the once revolutionary but now increasingly meaningless concept of date rape; reasonable people can disagree as to whether this encounter constituted a rape, but surely no one would suggest it was a date. As I read the woman’s report, and imagined the tones of outrage and hurt and violation in which it was surely given, and as I lingered on her account of how drunk she’d been, a very old-fashioned phrase suddenly floated through my mind. It was a phrase I hadn’t thought of in years, a simple formulation that carried within it a world of assumptions and beliefs. “She’s angry,” I thought to myself, “because he took advantage of her.”

Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic | source

Well-written, fascinating article about the "social" lifestyle in today's higher education. Worth a read. Flanagan really does pick on Duke, but I'd say this kind of thing could have happened at any major US university (USC included, of course). If you decide to read the Karen Owen powerpoint (which is linked in the article), be warned that it is long, crass, and generally falls into the category of Too Much Information.