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Ezra is of course a prime mover of explainer journalism in the last decade and I have a whole other problem with that, which I did a rant about over the weekend.
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Just hit me that explainer journalism is the one genre of modern pre-Weirding media that survived the Great Weirding completely intact. Didn’t miss a beat. It got big explaining the subprime crisis and has taken everything since 2007 in its stride.
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There’s a whole field of anti-explainer study in my corner of the blogosphere 🤣 I don’t unreservedly dislike them since there is a minority of good ones, but overall it’s a grifty part of blogo-newslettero-podcasto-sphere just a notch above Taboola-grade click farming
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I am somewhat sympathetic to both POVs here since I started to straddle both spaces (so you can argue I have no cred to critique either!). I have definitely had editors in popular press edit out all references to theory, even accessible “pop theory”, in writing I submit.
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I assume whenever I write something that touches on an academic discipline I’m not part of, 20 very angry people will find me on twitter to tell me why I am completely wrong/outdated ab their field. :) It is a good opportunity to learn but, I get their frustration.
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