The Plain Dealer actually has put together a list of Frequently asked questions about the three women who were rescued last week after a decade in captivity. Sasha Weiss considers – even as she understands why the paper did that – how coverage of the ordeal got to that point – and why the media narrative takes the forms that it has.
Tag: 05.12.13
Rethinking Digital Piracy
“If you’re a publisher, copy protection is all that stops the pirates from freely circulating your goods. Your revenue will crash. Maybe you’ll go out of business. But there’s another school of thought, which says that nobody pirates software except cash-poor kids who wouldn’t have bought it anyway.”
The Minnesota Lockout, More And More Painful By The Day
“The Minnesota case is particularly agonizing and seemingly inexplicable.”
Keep Your Soul, MoMA, And Don’t Kill The Museum Of Folk Art
“The stakes go beyond the Modern to civic health. Midtown and MoMA could both use more variety, serendipity and soul. The former folk art museum building, having all those things, isn’t an obstacle to progress but an opportunity.”
ABC, Streaming Realtime To Your Phone Or Tablet
“Known as Watch ABC, the app will launch in New York and Philadelphia this week before rolling across all markets in the coming months.”
When Kickstarter Goes Very, Very Wrong (And Hurts The Arts It’s Supposed To Be Helping)
“No children will go hungry because Amazon Payments has dropped our account into some antiquated pneumatic tube. The show will still go on. But I’ve had to restage because we couldn’t afford to build all of the platforms we had hoped, and a tiny, overextended staff is reaching ever farther with less.”
Jacqueline Brookes, 82, Who Played Equally Well In Hamlet and Naked Gun
In 1955, “Theater World cited her as among ‘the most promising personalities of the stage’; the others that year included Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.”
Bored Characters Who Don’t Bore Readers
“The first of my five favourite tediums is Jane Eyre (1847) pacing up and down the third storey at Thornfield Hall, longing for a bigger life and ‘a power of vision which might overpass that limit.'”