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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by John Woodrow Cox, Justin Sayles, Aryn Baker, Moran Barkai and Paul Tullis, and Russell Cobb and Sarah Brandvold.
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Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza
“While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.”
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Ms. Rachel Grew Up on Mister Rogers. Now She’s Carrying on His Legacy.
“The YouTube star wants her audiences—adults and children alike—to see the humanity of all people.”
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My Best Friend’s Murder Was a Tabloid Circus. Now, I’m Looking for the Truth.
“When Nicole DuFresne was killed in New York in 2005, the media twisted the narrative by latching onto a phrase that fell out of her mouth: ‘What are you going to do, shoot us?'”
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Touching The Elephant: Notes from a Haitian in the Diaspora
“It has always been a failure of both imagination and of historical evidence, to only center Haiti in crisis.”
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A Year in Reading: The Dark Side of Progress
We’re moving farther, faster, than ever before. But we’re also destabilizing crucial areas of human experience.
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Inside the “Broletariat Revolution”
“Tech elites hate the media. So they’re taking a page from Fox News.”
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What ‘Game of Thrones’ Did to the Media
“For a crucial decade in print media’s transition to the internet, HBO’s fantasy series was a boon in traffic… for everyone. But what happened when every publication started chasing the same thing?”
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Nightmare in Mission Hill
“The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting.”