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Episode 61: Cord Jefferson
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50 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2013
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Cord Jefferson is the West Coast Editor at Gawker.
"I consider myself to be a sincere human being. And I think that the way the internet carries itself, the way the internet has dialogues, is often insincere. That concerns me. I don't ever want to lose my sincerity. I don't ever want to lose my ability to feel emotional about things that I write about. I don't ever want to have a distance from everything that I write. I think that can be a danger of writing too much for the internet, that you develop this elitist distance from everything. That nothing really matters, you know?"
Thanks to TinyLetter and Hulu Plus for sponsoring this week's episode.
Show notes:
@cordjefferson
Jefferson on Longform
Jefferson's Gawker archive
[4:00] Jefferson on MSNBC (MSNBC • Jul 2013)
[5:45] "Video of Violent, Rioting Surfers Shows White Culture of Lawlessness" (Gawker • Jul 2013)
[7:00] "Don Lemon: Bill O'Reilly's 'Got A Point' About Black People" (Huffington Post • Jul 2013)
[20:30] "Don't Stop Running" (The Awl • Dec 2012)
[20:30] "I Used to Love Her, But I Had to Flee Her" (Gawker • Jul 2012)
[31:45] "When People Write for Free, Who Pays?" (Gawker • Mar 2013)
"I consider myself to be a sincere human being. And I think that the way the internet carries itself, the way the internet has dialogues, is often insincere. That concerns me. I don't ever want to lose my sincerity. I don't ever want to lose my ability to feel emotional about things that I write about. I don't ever want to have a distance from everything that I write. I think that can be a danger of writing too much for the internet, that you develop this elitist distance from everything. That nothing really matters, you know?"
Thanks to TinyLetter and Hulu Plus for sponsoring this week's episode.
Show notes:
@cordjefferson
Jefferson on Longform
Jefferson's Gawker archive
[4:00] Jefferson on MSNBC (MSNBC • Jul 2013)
[5:45] "Video of Violent, Rioting Surfers Shows White Culture of Lawlessness" (Gawker • Jul 2013)
[7:00] "Don Lemon: Bill O'Reilly's 'Got A Point' About Black People" (Huffington Post • Jul 2013)
[20:30] "Don't Stop Running" (The Awl • Dec 2012)
[20:30] "I Used to Love Her, But I Had to Flee Her" (Gawker • Jul 2012)
[31:45] "When People Write for Free, Who Pays?" (Gawker • Mar 2013)
Released:
Sep 25, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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