Another Damned Blog

Nick Douglas inspired me to put up a muxtape, and I am inordinately proud of it:

U2 - Dancing Barefoot
The Postal Service - Against All Odds
Calexico - Alone Again Or
Bono - Hallelujah
Michael Stipe and Chris Martin - In the Sun
Jonathan Houghton - Train in Vain
Smashing Pumpkins - Dancing in the Moonlight
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
Jeremy Adone [...]

Andrew Sullivan posted an excerpt from from an Atlantic story about media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Here’s part of it:
This is how Murdoch understands journalism—as content, a word he uses all the time, rather than as a form of literature or public service, and as a commodity whose value largely derives from its instant retail malleability.
It [...]