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There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein (www.patreon.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/morewrite@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there's this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/

While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

especially amusing considering this, published only nine months after vox launched. not sure how much objective resource building the professional journalism would be buying you there, ezra

https://deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447/

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 6 points 2 hours ago

That is, an Ezra Klein bottle