Yeah I started to write it all out today but then I thought I should wait for the book to percolate in Brazil for a while first. I'll come back to this later, on a podcast or an essay or afterword or something, it's interesting
Thank you for replying! I'll keep my eyes open, it really is interesting. Also surprised by the fact that the book is only now being published in brazil
According to what I was able to understand about Turump, he only respects "figures of power", "Über Mensch", who pursue their objectives through brute force and clear display of power. This seems to explain the change of posture of both Suckerberg and SuckerBezos, as both of them feel either threatened (for some reason) or hopeful to get something big from the current administration.
I find it quite funny than in the US, both my books have a mainstream, centrist publisher, and that in Brazil, both came out on resolutely left-wing imprints"
Thats because you did the work to succeed in our media system and thats why ill always respect you so much. I respect the people who take the outside path too, but I'm amazed at your dedication and skill in working journalism to go where you needed to be to write the Jakarta Method. It would still be a great book if it was published it with Haymarket, but the fact that it was a big trade book in the big house made it more impactful. Moments like that is when we can make the system work against itself, and I love you for that because I tried to do that and failed beause it is HARD. Journalism is a sick sick industry right now, and most of us had to find other jobs. I was lucky to stay in media production at all.
Regarding the last point: according to the jornaleiro of my neighborhood's newsstand, Folha is being really flimsy with the distribution of the daily newspaper. Last time I bought a print copy (about two weeks ago) , only Estadão was available. Fyi, I live in Zona Oeste, inside the centro expandido.
Curious about point 2
Yeah I started to write it all out today but then I thought I should wait for the book to percolate in Brazil for a while first. I'll come back to this later, on a podcast or an essay or afterword or something, it's interesting
Thank you for replying! I'll keep my eyes open, it really is interesting. Also surprised by the fact that the book is only now being published in brazil
Dismal. I just wrote a post on the NYT's naked imperial bias in some of its recent stories on Venezuela. It being the paper that "sets the agenda," it's very troubling to see so many others down for the count: https://weirdcatastrophe.substack.com/p/liberal-bias-in-the-media-is-just
I also can't express enough how important If We Burn is. I'm glad to see it's going to be getting a wider audience in Brazil. I drew upon your insights from the book for this critique of prefigurative politics: https://weirdcatastrophe.substack.com/p/if-prison-abolitionists-are-principled
So glad I found your newsletter. I'm excited to see if those commissions you mentioned really do take off. I think that'd be great.
According to what I was able to understand about Turump, he only respects "figures of power", "Über Mensch", who pursue their objectives through brute force and clear display of power. This seems to explain the change of posture of both Suckerberg and SuckerBezos, as both of them feel either threatened (for some reason) or hopeful to get something big from the current administration.
Wow! That's quite the degraded status of newspapers in Brazil, Vincent.
Watching the Trump wrecking ball is like watching a slow motion train wreck. Time for community development on a grand scale if we're to survive this.
#3 - lol; the best comedy is tragedy (or something)
you said,
I find it quite funny than in the US, both my books have a mainstream, centrist publisher, and that in Brazil, both came out on resolutely left-wing imprints"
Thats because you did the work to succeed in our media system and thats why ill always respect you so much. I respect the people who take the outside path too, but I'm amazed at your dedication and skill in working journalism to go where you needed to be to write the Jakarta Method. It would still be a great book if it was published it with Haymarket, but the fact that it was a big trade book in the big house made it more impactful. Moments like that is when we can make the system work against itself, and I love you for that because I tried to do that and failed beause it is HARD. Journalism is a sick sick industry right now, and most of us had to find other jobs. I was lucky to stay in media production at all.
solidarity.
Jed from The Spouter
omg. So my favorite Banca do jornal on Tia visconde de piraja is selling lighters & cell phone chargers.
Regarding the last point: according to the jornaleiro of my neighborhood's newsstand, Folha is being really flimsy with the distribution of the daily newspaper. Last time I bought a print copy (about two weeks ago) , only Estadão was available. Fyi, I live in Zona Oeste, inside the centro expandido.
Hmmm.... might be a good marketing strategy for the Washington Post.