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“Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton drag contest.”

The Awl everything changes newsletter on Dolly Parton today is excellent.

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Time of Your Life

Selling Millennials their own childhood at a 90s festival

“A man beside me was using a Treasure Troll as a pocket square.” end of days

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'Home Alone,' written by Cormac McCarthy

"He is wild and drunken, bestial, howling into the darkling primordial. There is no echo. He is a changeling."

[tomorrowpodcast]

Tomorrow really lives up to its title this week as John Herrman and Matt Buchanan (co-editors of The Awl) sit down with Josh to discuss the present and future of news reporting, social media, and technology — especially in the context of recent developments involving Uber and Gawker. Buckle up and grab your doxxing stick — because this ride makes The Fast and Furious look positively sluggish and tepid.

[newsfastforward]

Herrman and Buchanan think the media industry is due for a reckoning. The transition from media hosted on websites to media built around social platforms is more profound than people realize, Herrman says. As more content is published directly onto Facebook, users will gradually lose a sense of who’s producing what. The most consequential journalism becomes just another unit of content in a single stream of music videos, movie trailers, updates from friends and relatives, advertisements, and viral tidbits from sites adept at gaming fast-changing algorithms and behaviors. Readerships that seem large now will turn out to be as ephemeral as Snapchats.

Josh Dzieza, in ‘Why are the most important people in media reading the Awl?’

Woe unto those who thought the reckoning had already passed.

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