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Writer. Days doing comms at Virginia Tech, evenings teaching at Loyola Maryland. Musing on baseball and other maddening pastimes. prettygoodat.substack.com noahafrank.com
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Really, nothing can prepare you. So few things make me spontaneously laugh out loud anymore, but I’ve had it happen more than once seeing one. Just an utterly preposterous vehicle

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We saw it with the pandemic and we’re seeing it again now. There seems to be an expiration date on our cultural memory, no matter our cataloguing of it, that hits right around 100 years, or when the last living people who experienced an event die

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You can trace the history of pretty much every corporate degradation in this country to a group targeting a successful business, then slowly (or quickly) ruining it by trying to squeeze every penny of profit and shareholder value out of it to the detriment of its customers and the general public

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Discretionary spending by decade: 20s: The biggest bottle of cheap-but-still-name-brand liquor at Costco 30s: The second-cheapest bottle of wine at a fancy dinner 40s: The defective piece of your dryer that can cause your lint trap to catch on fire

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Man, the wind here has been absolutely nuts this week. I don’t ever remember it being this bad, day after day

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Finally

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We all see things through our own lens, but it’s been striking to me how much more clearly many sportswriters have understood the current political moment than the political press has. Maybe we’re all just more accustomed to covering the petulant, destructive, vindictive billionaires in charge

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I was just reminded of something I wrote around this time two years ago. While some of the extenuating circumstances have changed (who’s in charge, bird flu), the underlying premise remains the same. Can’t wait to go to the farmer’s market this weekend! open.substack.com/pub/prettygo...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Enough with the allegories

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I’ll add to this by saying that you also can’t be a good journalist without being a good — and humble — researcher. You have to be willing to identify and admit when you don’t know enough about something, then spend time learning about it before you start writing

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For my sports fans and media followers: I’m teaching a new course on sports media & broadcasting this semester and have a bunch of good guest speakers lined up, but could really use more materials. Anything from great examples of sports info, to publications, to broadcast techniques and even calls

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As someone who works with a lot of people exploring the capabilities of these technologies, the idea that you could gain anything meaningful from them with “zero education” is categorically false

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This is the feeling I’ve had a lot, lately. I still vividly remember sitting in a bar at a happy hour during the cruise ship press conference on March 6, 2020 and saying to everyone around me “Oh…so this is going to be REALLY bad.” That was only a week out and many were still oblivious

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i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

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BREAKING WAPO: Elon Musk's DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country — sparking alarm within the tax agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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