MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The viciousness, toxic partisan anger and intellectual dishonesty are at all-time highs.
Analysis @ NYTimes.com, July 20
[....] After nearly nine years and 187,000 tweets, I have used Twitter enough to know that it no longer works well for me. I will re-engage eventually, but in a different way.
With exception of breaking news and my own stories, taking a break from this platform. No reason or prompt other than that it’s not really helping the discourse.
Twitter has stopped being a place where I could learn things I didn’t know, glean information that was free from errors about a breaking news story or engage in a discussion and be reasonably confident that people’s criticisms were in good faith [....]
Comments
I rarely look at reply discussion threads on Twitter, I usually only look at the tweets by people I have chosen to follow. So lovely of Glen Thrush to provide an example today what it's been like for Maggie:
I was actually amused by how ""Soren" has the whole "movie serial killer style" of writing down pat!
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/20/2018 - 8:25pm