Aram Zucker-Scharff

Going native at the Times | Capital New York:

Meredith Kopit Levien on the paper’s big push

Her rebuttal to the John Oliver segment? “The best way to preserve editorially independent, high quality journalism is to preserve the business model. And I think the idea of branded content that shares a form factor with editorial is a great first step.”

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“Later in the day, it occurs to me that for the first time I met someone who may be responsible for the murders of many people, and I asked him a polite question.

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“There are also the other stories, the ones about how these neighborhoods were set up, how white men decided where black families would live, how it came to be that Buddha grew up in a place where you carry a gun to come and go from home and kill a boy who looks like a younger version of yourself.

“I don’t have words for these other stories, only the feeling of them inside of me like pebbles piled at the corner of a child’s desk.

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“This is part of the agreement we make by working here, as people of color. We don’t know who harbors doubts about our capacity to think and work and write. We don’t know, not really, who we can trust.

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“It’s been eight years since that day in the theater, and I’m thinking again about a white man confessing to his own people that he cared about the black community, that he thought he could singlehandedly change a hierarchy. I’m thinking about the whiteness of the news organization and how that whiteness reproduced itself with every hire, every promotion, but that is not a scandal.”

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– You should read all of this, but these are some highlight quotes from: Latina, at the white, male New York Times: “Why are people thinking it’s OK to say racist sh-t in front of me?”

“”This is a system of trafficking in women. It is, of course, consensual, and a far cry from anything like sexual slavery. But, in an anthropological sense, it is not so different from the tribal kinship systems studied by Claude Lévi-Strauss, in which men exchanged women in order to forge alliances with other men, while women were cut out from the value that their own circulation generated.””

– Who Runs the Girls?

“”A longer period of dating, with all the unpredictability and change that come with a cast of new partners, may be better for your brain than marriage.””

– The Case for Delayed Adulthood.