THE FEED: JAN 31ST

What we're reading:

The case against economic disaster porn
(New Republic): Presenting pictures of a city beyond repair "quashes any instinct to repair it"

A date with revolution
(New York Times): Egyptian novelist Mansoura Ez-Eldin reports from Cairo

Record companies slow to profit from digital music
(Guardian): "Content is no longer king. Its throne has been taken by experience. Yet how many music services really focus on experience?"

Today's quote:

"The cries to pull 'Skins', despite (or perhaps because of) its popularity among its target audience is a knee-jerk shutdown in communications... American absolutism means that their cultural handle on sex veers from ignorant to hypocritical, but rarely settles at normal or compassionate."

~ Harriet Walker, "The hypocrisy of America's moral outrage" (Independent)

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