The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #166
Why Did WAMU Close DCist?, Washingtonian, Andrew Beaujon, April 19, 2024 We really can’t afford to lose more real, local journalists—people who tell real stories about what’s going on in the area at a granular level, not just filler and content creators. But we did.
The decision, to gut the reporting staff and focus on audio, is moronic, which is what’s being said a little nicer here:
Worth a full read if you’re in the region and care about news. Washingtonian isn’t perfect either, it should be noted—then and current CEO Catherine Merrill penned an infamous piece in 2021 threatening her employees who chose to work from home, even though for some reason she permitted that choice. Japan’s Southern-Style Conservatism, Modern Age, Allen Mendenhall, April 30, 2024 Interesting premise. I once compared Hawaii to the American South—I detected a similar sense of local pride imbued with some bitterness over a sense of what was lost (Hawaii actually being an independent nation at one time, the South, of course, giving it a go). Morally and geopolitically these sentiments may not be the same, but in a human sense, I suppose they are.
And:
I don’t entirely agree with the article, but it’s interesting and rings true as a sociological observation. Hand-Cranked Ice Cream Against Despair, Front Porch Republic, Dixie Dillon Lane, May 22, 2024
Don’t I know the feeling. I almost forewent a flight ticket to drive to Cincinnati for the pair of urbanism conferences I attended there. On the morning of the flight I was very happy to sit on an airplane for a couple hours. The scheme in question here was an ice-cream-making party at park with dozens of kids:
What a lovely read. I Thought I Was Safe at L’Enfant Plaza, Washington Post, Marilyn Basil Austin, September 24, 1989 This appears to be a letter to the editor—it’s short and the author isn’t a journalist—but it’s an interesting time capsule into the way we talked about cities in that time.
Also this!
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