Nerds, Dweebs, and Cancellees

Feminine Chaos

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Nerds, Dweebs, and Cancellees

Kat Rosenfield

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

May 20, 2023

With early access for premium subscribers! Kat and Phoebe discuss a New Yorker article about a party for the post-cancelled and the extremely normal responses to it from fellow journalists.

This Party Is Cancelled: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled

Readers having a normal one:

https://twitter.com/jeffihaza/status/1659278954014945280

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1658933551365234692

https://twitter.com/1followernodad/status/1658947976973398016

Jesse Singal on Dappergate:

Singal-Minded

It Isn’t Journalism’s Job To Hand-Hold People To The Correct Moral Conclusions

One of the silliest ideas to infect mainstream journalism in recent years is the notion that when journalists produce work about a bad person, they must signpost that work, seemingly every moment, with explicit indicators that that person is bad. You need to hold readers’ hands tightly, because they are moral idiots, and the moment your grip slips, they…

3 years ago · 246 likes · 59 comments · Jesse Singal

Feminine Chaos

Nerds, Dweebs, and Cancellees

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