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Quotation of the Day for January 5, 2011"Apparently, long-form journalism is far from dead, even on the Internet. This comes as no surprise to those of us who love the Sunday New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, although we are clearly a minority. But then people who read for pleasure and enlightenment have always been vastly outnumbered by the functionally literate, for whom reading is headlines, highway signs, prescription bottles, and movie listings--that is, a necessity of life. For them, length is an issue. For us, it simply raises the question, is there ever too much of a good thing? Some stories cannot be told in a few hundred words, much less 140 characters." - John Macfarlane, Editor's Note, The Walrus, December 2010. Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Dec. 23, 2010 |
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