17 min
The News Anxious Machine
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- Cultura y sociedad
I’ve always had a problematic relationship to the news, and I’ve struggled to navigate that even more since this pandemic began. I talk to my father about the night I yelled at him over his insufficient fear of the virus, and I look back on a 1954 essay by E.B. White about the disparity between his experience of a hurricane and the coverage he hears of that hurricane on the radio.
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Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Links: The Eye of Edna by E.B. White
Cancel Everything by Yascha Mounk
I’ve always had a problematic relationship to the news, and I’ve struggled to navigate that even more since this pandemic began. I talk to my father about the night I yelled at him over his insufficient fear of the virus, and I look back on a 1954 essay by E.B. White about the disparity between his experience of a hurricane and the coverage he hears of that hurricane on the radio.
Subscribe (or write a review) in iTunes
Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Links: The Eye of Edna by E.B. White
Cancel Everything by Yascha Mounk
17 min