media report 3/17
hoping to keep track of some stuff I've read/consumed lately (currently mostly writing, maybe some other forms of media later) as well as notes (slightly for my own memory)
books
- Somewhat dated name. Decent story that had a somewhat disappointing ending
- ended up being much more about the IRA side than I expected
- main character ended up feeling a bit like a plot device
spoiler for ^
after some time I like the bleakness/pointlessness of it. Nguyen does everything for revenge and ends up dying meaninglessly (which almost seems like the point)- bleak but even moreso because it's real people
- doesn't dig enough into the why, focusing a bit too much on the what
- I don't really know what style this is (I last saw this in Evicted by Matthew Desmond) but the jumping between multiple interviewed subjects didn't work as well for me in this case?
spoiler for ^
a bit sad that at the end, there was no resolution to many of the people (case studies?). hard to take anything away on how to fix the actual problem. did not have a lot of sympathy towards some of the subjects towards the end.articles
mostly older articles that I really liked
the goon squad (Harper's)
- a journalist spending hundreds of hours in goon discords should not be this funny
- like 50% sure some of the interviewed subjects were lying
the most nihilistic conflict on earth/this is what the end of the liberal world order looks like (The Atlantic)
- Combination of photo journalism and reporting, much of the public is not aware of the scale of the crisis in sudan
photography
grievous country (Harper's)
- really devastating photo-journalism from syria