It’s my new year’s media resolution to wean myself off the trending news that social media algorithms serves up. So every day I am trying to find five interesting stories that weren’t on any most viral lists.
- “L.A. County sheriff’s deputy is charged with selling drugs and offering to hire other cops to protect dealers” (Los Angeles Times) – The scale of the criminality in this thorough report is just staggering.
- “No One Is Coming to Save Us From Trump’s Racism” (New York Times) – Roxane Gay writes in an op-ed: “the president is not alone in thinking so poorly of the developing world. He didn’t reveal any new racism. He, once again, revealed racism that has been there all along.”
- “Foreign spies are watching — and probably targeting — Fox News Channel” (Washington Post) – What do you do if you’re a foreign spy who knows the U.S. President is under the influence of Fox News? Recruit some Fox News staffers as agents, of course.
- “Italy’s love affair with cinema cools as film fans turn to TV” (The Observer) – “Italy basically invented the arthouse film but we were the first ones to kill it.â€
- “Moscow Gets 6 Minutes of Sunlight in December” (Moscow Times) – That’s it. For the whole month. Six minutes. Bleak city.
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