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Oct 11, 2017·1 min read

The direction of online reading proves alarming. I like to look at this “trendy clickbait headline” disfigure as just a phase. I am optimistic we can turn things around.

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Bored, uneducated, homeless — em dashes are my specialty. I write what I see, think, and feel. That’s it.

…g. I’m happy that the papers have managed to earn enough money to keep great journalists employed — but in doing so, they’ve been forced to acquiesce to a self-destructive attitude in which “more news, faster news, trendier news” is all that matters.

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