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Pretty much every article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine coincides with something in your life? I don’t know, but I wrote them to say the same thing (I’ve actually had three or so letters to the editor of the magazine published over the years – on intelligent design, gifted education and I don’t recall what else):
The good news: I’m finding that more and more material in each issue of the magazine reflects something in my life. I don’t know if that says more about me or your magazine, but there it is. So, my comments:
1. Reading the interview with David Iglesias made me realize that for all my apathy, as a Democrat, regarding Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, as a voter, he is in a much worse spot.
2. I read about Thinspiration videos earlier this week online at
Feministing.com[I can't find where I read about it!] and still, I am speechless.3. I bought a FLip camera after having been credentialed to cover the Democratic primary debate in Cleveland. I took my old Sony Cybershot and my MacBook laptop with me and wasted five hours trying to download video, convert it and then upload it to YouTube.com. I missed several opportunities not only to meet people but observe the debate. And I promised myself that I’d buy the FLip before the Ohio primary. I did and it was exactly what I needed. I use it constantly now and my kids love it as a rainy day activity. You can see how I use it here.
4. Finally, about all the pages you allowed to be used by Emily Gould: I would like to beg you to please, please, PLEASE cover some other kinds of bloggers that make up the more than 110 million tracked by Technorati. Not the mommy bloggers. Not the milbloggers. Not the media-hound or sex columnist or racist bloggers. Not the top bloggers like the Huffington Post, Daily Kos or Firedoglake. Not the blogs connected to the news outlets.
But how about the blogs in each community that cover what the newspapers don’t have room for or for other editorial reasons decide not to cover? How about the blogs that are covering school council meetings and engaging literally hundreds and thousands of residents in a dialogue about their communities and their governments?
These are not “placeblogs” that help you get a sense of a particular town. Rather, they are the nucleus of a new town center, a new source of community within a community. And the people behind them often make no money from their endeavors but they continue to do what they do with enormous support, and satisfaction.
I would be happy to point you in the direction of what I call Hunter-Gatherer blogs if you decide to follow-up on this idea.
Thank you.
I left out the part about how I live in the Cleveland area and couldn’t stop reading the riveting story about Sgt. Shuvron Phillips who was treated for some time at the Cleveland VA.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:11 pm May 25th, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Writing
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It means you are really white.
The overabundance of white people-related stories in the NYT is the reason stuffwhitepeoplelike.com changed their policy:
“we have concluded our study of white people in the New York Times and will no longer take submissions from the New York Times”
OMG. I AM white!
That is a great blog, isn’t it? When I started learning about WOC and POC sites, that was one of the first I heard about.
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