Comments on: Brier’s best http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7592 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Saheli http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7592/comment-page-1#comment-73342 Saheli Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:45:23 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7592#comment-73342 That collecting is riveting but gut wrenching. It reminds me of how Chris Hedges' book "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" was described to me by the friend who gave it to me as a going-to-Journalism school present. "He's basically saying that war is terrible, but it's also a drug, and war correspondents epitomize the contradiction. Their mission is to end it, their addiction is to run towards it." I finished a few days after sitting through the Kurt Schork awards and was relieved to realize I did not even want to <i>think</i> about going down that path. I have tremendous admiration for war correspondents and war photographers, but I shudder to contemplate how they became who they are, or why, or what happens after. It also reminds me a bit of a <a href="http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/societyculture/on_leadership/" rel="nofollow">previous snarkcomment</a> I once made about "throwing oneself into the abyss of history." That was six and a half years ago---not that long and a looong time ago. @EC is often remarking to me about how truly crazy 2011 has been newswise, even though it feels like our whole adult lives the news has been a bit crazy. I am realizing now that a) there are many gullies that now drain into the abyss, and many ways to slip into it and b) it's even harder and more dangerous than it seemed back then. That collecting is riveting but gut wrenching. It reminds me of how Chris Hedges’ book “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” was described to me by the friend who gave it to me as a going-to-Journalism school present. “He’s basically saying that war is terrible, but it’s also a drug, and war correspondents epitomize the contradiction. Their mission is to end it, their addiction is to run towards it.” I finished a few days after sitting through the Kurt Schork awards and was relieved to realize I did not even want to think about going down that path. I have tremendous admiration for war correspondents and war photographers, but I shudder to contemplate how they became who they are, or why, or what happens after. It also reminds me a bit of a previous snarkcomment I once made about “throwing oneself into the abyss of history.” That was six and a half years ago—not that long and a looong time ago. @EC is often remarking to me about how truly crazy 2011 has been newswise, even though it feels like our whole adult lives the news has been a bit crazy. I am realizing now that a) there are many gullies that now drain into the abyss, and many ways to slip into it and b) it’s even harder and more dangerous than it seemed back then.

]]> By: Tim http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7592/comment-page-1#comment-73210 Tim Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:12:03 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7592#comment-73210 "Remember before we used real-time short-form aggregated text messages all the time, and we all just posted links to blogs? And sometimes added a quote or a thought or a reaction or two? "Wasn't that kind of AWESOME?" “Remember before we used real-time short-form aggregated text messages all the time, and we all just posted links to blogs? And sometimes added a quote or a thought or a reaction or two?

“Wasn’t that kind of AWESOME?”

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