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I would as much be wont to read the New York Post for any worthwhile commentary on rich people as, say, read The Atlantic for sports coverage.
by herge 13y ago
I would as much be wont to read the New York Post for any worthwhile commentary on rich people as, say, read The Atlantic for sports coverage.
- joshmlewis 13y agoCan you clean up your words so we can know what opinion or point you're trying to get across?
- sp332 13y ago"Wont", pronounced like "want". It means being accustomed to something. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wont#Adjective http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wont#Adjective
- stephencanon 13y agoHasty translation into simple english, at the cost of all snark and subtlety: “An article in the New York Post on the subject of rich people is likely to be of low quality."
- nether 13y agoI would never read the Atlantic since they started pandering to the reddit/HN/internet populist crowd (well, they're banned from reddit). Their hugely successful "digital-first strategy" to maximize web ad revenue is covered well by n+1: http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15 http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15
- salemh 13y agoYour URL is dead, I believe this is the right one: http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15 http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15 Edit: your URL is missing http:// http://, for whatever that is worth. Every time a plane flies over New York, we think, “Oh my God — is it another Atlantic think piece?” We mean, “an Atlantic think piece about women.”
- bjterry 13y agoThat article did indeed "cover" their digital-first strategy, but it was thickly laden with sarcasm, their heavy-handed ideal of gender politics, and plain old lack of clarity. I didn't "cover" The Atlantic's strategy in the sense that a journalist covers a story, but in the sense that mud covers my boots. Edit: In the name of fairness I looked for more nuanced/clear criticism of The Atlantic's digital-first strategy and was unable to find any. Almost all the pieces were fawning over its basically unrivaled success among the old guard. The Church of Scientology events were quite troubling, though: http://www.emediavitals.com/content/lessons-atlantics-sponsored-content-brain-fart http://www.emediavitals.com/content/lessons-atlantics-sponso...
- nmcfarl 13y agoPerhaps. But this doesn’t feel like news or commentary. This feels like allegory. It’s a bedtime story about following your dreams, and the independence of children, and people in general. And it’s good. It reads well. Better than anything in the Post has a right to be. (But I suspect that I think that as I don't read the Post enough to find these fairy-tales.) Well worth the 3 minutes.