{"id":5238,"date":"2018-01-17T01:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2018-01-17T08:29:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T13:29:25","slug":"5-generally-interesting-stories-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/17\/5-generally-interesting-stories-6\/","title":{"rendered":"5 generally interesting stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s my new year’s media resolution<\/a> 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. “L.A. County sheriff’s deputy is charged with selling drugs and offering to hire other cops to protect dealers”<\/a> (Los Angeles Times<\/em>) –<\/strong> The scale of the criminality in this thorough report is just staggering.<\/li>\n
  2. “No One Is Coming to Save Us From Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Racism”<\/a> (New York Times<\/em>) –<\/strong> Roxane Gay writes in an op-ed: “the president is not alone in thinking so poorly of the developing world. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reveal any new racism. He, once again, revealed racism that has been there all along.”<\/li>\n
  3. “Foreign spies are watching \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and probably targeting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Fox News Channel”<\/a> (Washington Post<\/em>) –<\/strong> What do you do if you’re a foreign spy who knows<\/a> the U.S. President is under the influence of Fox News? Recruit some Fox News staffers as agents, of course.<\/li>\n
  4. “Italy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love affair with cinema cools as film fans turn to TV”<\/a> (The Observer<\/em>) –<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Italy basically invented the arthouse film but we were the first ones to kill it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  5. “Moscow Gets 6 Minutes of Sunlight in December”<\/a> (Moscow Times<\/em>) –<\/strong> That’s it. For the whole<\/em> month. Six minutes. Bleak city.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    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” … <\/p>\n

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