Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): On the Nightmare Awaiting the News Industry Courtesy the Team at The Information

 

THE TAKEAWAY The Nightmare Awaiting the News Industry By Jessica E. Lessin It was somewhere around minute 13 of watching Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez try to remove the blur of her livestream camera while streaming to nearly 300,000 people on Twitch that I got a big pit in my stomach, sat back and wondered: Is this what my future media diet will become? To rewind, while following this week’s rapidly escalating series of news events around GameStop, Robinhood and (unrelatedly—but relatedly) investor Chamath Palihapitiya’s attempt to become governor of California, I saw AOC tweet that she would be talking to Palihapitiya on her livestream. I was interested in hearing what they would both have to say, and while I had a million other things to do, I decided it was important to tune in.    READ THE FULL STORY

Notations On Our World (Weekly Edition): On this 42nd Annivesary of the Iranian Revolution

Our team pulled together a curated snapshot of the past number of weeks featuring an interview by Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister in the outgoing Government as elections loom, a depiction of the state of affairs in Iran as a Cop was slapped by a member of Parliament and an image of the glory days of the Persian Empire:

Notations From the Grid (W-End Edition): This Is My Country (2013) - Mormon Tabernacle Choir