Can everything be reduced to 140 characters?
My friend, Kathleen Magone, specializes in finding intriguing quotes. Following is one that truly marks a gap, not just between generations but between educational classes. It is attributed to Jonathan Macfarlane, writing in the the literary journal The Walrus :
“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.”
Something you agree with?
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