Posts tagged "media":

Diary; thoughts of the day

Spent some time reading through my fediverse stream and catching up on various kinds of terminology, gender relationships, human relationships… Sometimes it seems like I've been hiding in a cave all these years… words like swerf and terf were new to me, and what's harder, understanding them often requires going more deeply into what people say about them, and then trying to make an evaluation. Then I learned, also from my stream, about Glenn Greenwald's mutual embrace with right-wing media, and the acrimony between him and Micah lee and others. Again, hiding in a cave.

Freedom outside the press

Yesterday I listened to a 90 minute interview of Kim Stanley Robinson by journalist Ezra Klein in his podcast. It's the first time I'd listened to Klein - I had never even heard of this seasoned American journalist. But the interview was impressive from both sides. Klein, who says that Robinson's Ministry of the Future was the most important book that he'd read that year managed to ask questions about many of the central features of the novel, and, in response, Robinson spoke about topics like Eco-Marxism, which is an ism that I hadn't heard of.