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Wow.
I didn’t know it cost that much to bail out their captive journalist in the ransom they just paid the Taliban.
Cover story in this month’s Harper’s is by Richard Rodriguez.
We might now say: Newspapers will be lost because technology will force us to acquire information in new ways. In that case, who will tell us what it means to live as citizens of Seattle or Denver or Ann Arbor? The truth is we no longer want to live in Seattle or Denver or Ann Arbor. Our inclination has led us to invent a digital cosmopolitanism that begins and ends with “I.” Careening down Geary Boulevard on the 38 bus, I can talk to my my dear Auntie in Delhi or I can view snapshots of my cousin’s wedding in Recife or I can listen to girl punk from Glasgow. The cost of my cyber-urban experience is disconnection from body, from presence, from city.
in other news… the stranger is still without a news editor yes?
Frankly, I’m just happy they’re still in business at all. There for a while it wasn’t looking very good.
Girl Punk from Glasgow is pretty cool, actually.
Mind you, it helps if you can understand a Scottish burr.