Lynn Becker
@cmgiulini.bsky.social
drifter/writer on architecture, culture and Chicago, photographer specializing in out-of-focus images. there will be posts on opera, apologies in advance.
Apologies. s/b Alison Cuddy. Damn you autocorrect!
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Apologies. s/b Alison Cuddy. Damn you autocorrect!
We have reached the point where the richest nation in the world can only support one fully-resourced paper (two, if you count the Wall Street Journal). Everywhere else is mostly monks in decaying monasteries, struggling to maintain the very idea of knowledge, in a world grown hostile and indifferent
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
We have reached the point where the richest nation in the world can only support one fully-resourced paper (two, if you count the Wall Street Journal). Everywhere else is mostly monks in decaying monasteries, struggling to maintain the very idea of knowledge, in a world grown hostile and indifferent
...just cutting his losses by defenestrating a third of the newsroom, including an entire Sports department, declawing the tiger, Alden fashion. If you can’t actually burn books, after kick-starting your vast fortune by selling them - killing off the book section is the next best thing...
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
...just cutting his losses by defenestrating a third of the newsroom, including an entire Sports department, declawing the tiger, Alden fashion. If you can’t actually burn books, after kick-starting your vast fortune by selling them - killing off the book section is the next best thing...
...Every time a reporter gets canned, there’s more breathing room for an administration that cannot survive without lies. Jeff Bezos, having completing his transition from nerdy wonk to jet-set supervillain, complete with reconstructed glam wife, is nowhere to be found...
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
...Every time a reporter gets canned, there’s more breathing room for an administration that cannot survive without lies. Jeff Bezos, having completing his transition from nerdy wonk to jet-set supervillain, complete with reconstructed glam wife, is nowhere to be found...
...If you doubt the crucial importance of the Washington Post, just read the gleeful comments from the MAGA bots, all the way up to Trump’s Jabba the Hut ghostwriter Stephen Cheung, celebrating the death of “fake news”; i.e., anything not fawning Fox News-level propaganda....
The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 PM
...If you doubt the crucial importance of the Washington Post, just read the gleeful comments from the MAGA bots, all the way up to Trump’s Jabba the Hut ghostwriter Stephen Cheung, celebrating the death of “fake news”; i.e., anything not fawning Fox News-level propaganda....