April 2011
26 posts
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Next month I will have taught journalism at New York University for 25 years, an occasion that has led me to reflect on what I have tried to profess in that time.
Or, to put it another way, what I think I know about journalism.
It comes down to these four ideas.
1. The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be.
2. The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere.
3. The news system will improve when it is made more useful to people.
4. Making facts public does not a public make; information alone will not inform us.
” —Jay Rosen (via soupsoup)
“You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don’t. It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that… Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself.”
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Toni Morrison
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In honor of record store day:
hman:
The first CD I bought with my own cash was the Spice Girls’ Spice and I bought it at a Best Buy for $12.72.
Colour by Numbers - Culture Club, bought at Crazy Eddie’s.
Dookie - Green Day, bought at my father’s record store.
jagged little pill- alanis morrisette. bought with my eighth birthday money for $8.99 at the crossgates mall fye. (my dad didn’t own a record store but he worked for the company that owned it #notascool)
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“How easy and natural love is if you are well! And how gruesomely difficult—what a philosophically daunting contraption of self-interest and self-delusion love appears to be—if you are not!”
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#readingthisoverandoverandoverandoverand…
