THE FEED: APRIL 11TH

What we're reading:

People of the eye
(Boston Globe): Authors of a new book on deaf culture argue that the hereditary deaf should be understood as an ethnic group

Sidney Lumet dies at 86
(Los Angeles Times): "It was the messy business of simply being human that the filmmaker found so compelling"

Why even read poetry?
(NPR): David Orr, the poetry critic for the New York Times, on whether one should read poems: "I don't know that people ought to bother"

Today's quote:

"Discussions of technology and media tend to focus on speed—what’s the fastest way to break the story, consume the story, influence the story? After all, media consumers today seem like info-rats chewing through heaps of micro-facts and instant-expiration data points. But the other interesting thing about media these days is that it can stand perfectly still. In fact it loiters: shows don’t simply spill over the airwaves and evaporate; they linger on DVRs, DVDs, various online services. Newspaper articles pile up in Web 'archives'."

~ Rob Walker, "How 'Radiolab' is Transforming the Airwaves" (New York Times Magazine)

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