Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
About five years ago, I was asked to visit the newsroom at Mic, a digital-media start-up backed by venture capital and focused on news for the millennial audience. As the public editor of the New York Times, I suppose I was seen as an expert in traditional journalism ethics — especially through the eyes of…
This is about television in the 1990s, but let’s start with a quick, tragic and important trip to 1975. Happy Days is about to deliver its infamous and most cringeworthy episode. In “Fonzie’s New Friend,” the leather jacket-clad Fonz meets up with Sticks Downey, a new-to-town wisecracking drummer. The Fonz decides that Sticks, played with…
CreditCreditJooHee Yoon BARI WEISS: Everything sucks. That’s the overwhelming feeling I get when I spend too much time on Twitter. It makes me feel anxious and angry and amped up. And that’s on a day when I’m not even trending as a Very Bad Person. This fall I read Jaron Lanier’s book “Ten Arguments for…
Our shopper visits the new Amazon 4 Star store, which stocks items with customer review ratings of four stars or better. Brick and mortar never had it so rough. The new Amazon 4 Star store on Spring Street in Manhattan.CreditStefania Curto for The New York Times I have a faint memory of an article I…