Aram Zucker-Scharff

“”But these problems are different — a wildfire with zero percent containment. The issue is violence, which is what the league has packaged and sold as entertainment for decades. Now the violence being questioned is not just the kind inflicted against other players, on every single play, though growing evidence and concern over brain damage haunts and threatens the game’s long-term survival.
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What has the N.F.L. reeling now are the violent acts committed by its players against women and children. The disease of violence is spreading.””

– As Life Imitates Brutal Sport, Cheers Have Uneasy Resonance.

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“The problem with winners self-identifying as losers: once you’ve cast yourself as a victim in your own mind, there’s no need to interrogate your own behavior.

There is an alternative: solidarity. […]

I fear too that we have come to so thoroughly associate fandom with grievance that the two are now inextricable. That, I suspect, is the long-term consequence of the rise of the geeks: that we no longer know how to enjoy art without enjoying it against others. “

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– A really fascinating debate unit over at the New York Times. All the articles are really interesting, but this one hit a chord. Some of the phrasing (that headline…) is more meant to incite, but the underlying point… has a point.

The homepage is dead, the section home page is dead, the app is dead and the social web has won—even at NYT. :

Traffic to the New York Times homepage fell by half in the last two years, according to the newspaper’s internal review of its digital strategy. Here’s the very stark chart: That’s not necessarily a reflection of any problems at the Times but the reality of how news is now distributed on the internet. Homepage traffic is declining at…

The new reality: news is all push, no pull.

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kateoplis:

Your Tumblr du Jour: Times Haiku

FJP: We’ll never read the New York Times the same again.