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Title: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2015, 09:15:55 AM
I'm opening this thread to share general links for excellent long-form journalism.  There's plenty of it out there, and I'll add a few as I go from my personal archives...

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2015, 09:15:58 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-new-york-city.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2015, 10:08:44 AM
https://medium.com/matter/why-the-california-drought-is-all-your-fault-55f81a947ce2
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2015, 11:02:15 AM
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-woman-pawn-global-crime-plot/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-01/children-of-the-yuan-percent-everyone-hates-china-s-rich-kids

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-americans-have-yet-to-recover-from-the-recession-2015-09-23?mod=e2tw

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/world/stowaway-crime-scofflaw-ship.html

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-trump-balloon

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-lost-girls/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/us/teenagers-jailing-brings-a-call-to-fix-sex-offender-registries.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/americans-gave-their-lives-to-defeat-the-nazis-the-dutch-have-never-forgotten/2015/05/24/92dddab4-fa79-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/22/opinion/sunday/24vaughn.html

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2015, 06:26:58 AM
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/how-to-catch-a-match-fixer
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 03, 2015, 09:21:00 PM
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-tangled-cultural-roots-of-dungeons-dragons

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html?_r=0

http://www.idsnews.com/article/2013/10/the-end-of-the-waffle-house?id=94816

http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21584311-elmore-leonard-crime-fiction-writer-died-august-20th-aged-87-elmore-leonard

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on November 03, 2015, 11:28:45 PM
A link from the D&D story above in The New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dungeons-dragons-saved-my-life
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on November 06, 2015, 12:32:23 PM
Whew, not the end of the Waffle House franchise.

One of my best friends was getting her Masters and Doctorate at Bloomington, IN (before she got a more fun and lucrative job opportunity). I wonder if she ever ate there, or knew people who did...
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 07, 2015, 09:09:04 AM
very good long-form article / case study about the legal challenges of sexting and how society is trying to wrangle with it

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 09, 2015, 05:51:27 PM
excellent story about how far some people will go to follow their dreams
http://grantland.com/features/jon-solomon-profile-german-basketball-import-exposure-tour-international-players/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 18, 2015, 09:44:09 AM
not exactly journalism but still very powerful
https://medium.com/@samgrittner/a-funny-thing-happened-when-i-was-typing-my-suicide-note-1c9d98f78935
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 23, 2015, 09:28:57 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/europe/wwii-hero-credits-luck-and-chance-in-foiling-hitlers-nuclear-ambitions.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on November 23, 2015, 09:33:55 PM
Saw that.  Never wondered how Norway felt about their role in WWII.  Now, a small window of insight.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 02, 2015, 10:10:41 AM
interesting article about how difficult it is to catch a 'swatter'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on December 02, 2015, 08:09:03 PM
What a dick.  I get he's a psychopath, I just hate it for the people he swatted.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 21, 2015, 08:52:00 AM
Rapes connected across 2 states, and someone remarkably recanting an actual one
https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story

Earthquake coming in the northwest
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

Putin knocking off his rivals
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/28/boris-nemtsov-death-fear-for-the-future-of-russians

Fatherhood, the hard way
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/05/16/a-fathers-initiative/

The guy that brought down FIFA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/

Ownership using newspaper reporters in personal legal fight - and who is Edward Clarkin?
http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/judge-adelson-lawsuit-subject-unusual-scrutiny-amid-review-journal-sale

Everything you were afraid to know about Silk Road
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

Russian Trolls
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

Laid off from ESPN
http://gusramsey.blogspot.com/2015/10/espn-thanks-for-memories.html

Why Greg Hardy was arrested (with photos)
http://deadspin.com/this-is-why-nfl-star-greg-hardy-was-arrested-for-assaul-1739117634

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2016, 08:54:11 PM
Maritime Repo Men
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/world/americas/maritime-repo-men-a-last-resort-for-stolen-ships.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 27, 2016, 11:39:40 AM
Career Minor League player...  a real-life Crash Davis

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/mike-hessman-minor-league-home-run-king-retires-toledo-mud-hens-life-of-baseball-113015
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 01, 2016, 11:12:02 AM
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations


and the fallout
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-jane-mayer-when-she-wrote-about-the-koch-brothers.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 08, 2016, 03:28:04 PM
"Putin's Dragon" - ruler of Chechnya
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/putins-dragon
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 24, 2016, 09:45:45 AM
adding from someone else's thread

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/stan-lees-universe-c-v-r.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2016, 04:07:12 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/magazine/the-plot-to-take-down-a-fox-news-analyst.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 08, 2016, 12:56:17 PM
Eradicating the KKK
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/03/how_a_detachment_of_u_s_army_soldiers_smoked_out_the_original_ku_klux_klan.single.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Airborne Rifles on March 08, 2016, 02:44:22 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 08, 2016, 12:56:17 PM
Eradicating the KKK
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/03/how_a_detachment_of_u_s_army_soldiers_smoked_out_the_original_ku_klux_klan.single.html

Was reading this a few days ago. Really good.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on March 14, 2016, 08:55:03 PM
Mapping the cannabis genome


http://www.newsweek.com/marijuana-scientist-mapping-cannabis-genome-changing-weed-game-436526
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 14, 2016, 09:59:30 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 07, 2015, 09:09:04 AM
very good long-form article / case study about the legal challenges of sexting and how society is trying to wrangle with it

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/

Follow-up / related...  life on the sex offender registry when everything happened when you were 10-years-old
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-accused-of-sex-crimes
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on March 18, 2016, 08:36:39 PM
The serach for life on other planets ramps up:


http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-debate-signatures-of-alien-life-2016-3
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2016, 03:48:07 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 23, 2016, 12:54:15 PM
not as long as I'd prefer, but interesting mix of the "11 nations of North America"

http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html

we've seen the map here on the site before, but the companion article gives you more detail.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 23, 2016, 07:53:53 PM
How Nike lost Steph Curry

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15047018/how-nike-lost-stephen-curry-armour

All about how the underdog started running circles around the big dog when the big dog lost sight of what mattered and started taking their 'bigness' for granted as the inertial force that would carry the day just by showing up.  Kinda like SBNation and Bleacher Report and The Ringer are doing to ESPN now.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2016, 06:46:47 PM
Bill Walton

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/bill-waltons-long-strange-tale-of-nba-survival.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 05, 2016, 09:13:36 AM
Marketing Apple Inc 40 years ago

http://www.fastcompany.com/3058227/regis-mckennas-1976-notebook-and-the-invention-of-apple-computer-inc
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on April 07, 2016, 07:57:01 PM
A therapists insight into priests and their sexuality:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/7/11325336/priests-love-therapy
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 11, 2016, 12:06:32 PM
the voyeur's motel
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel


why rural women are dying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/04/08/we-dont-know-why-it-came-to-this/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 14, 2016, 05:38:43 AM
How to buy college football players

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/4/10/5594348/college-football-bag-man-interview


The best quote - my emphasis

QuoteRemember, your job as a bag man isn't to hide the benefit. It's to hide the proof. In a region as passionate about college football as the American South, there's no real moral outrage when new cars or clothes or jobs for relatives appear.

"We can only get away with whatever's considered reasonable by the majority of the folks in our society. That's why it's different in the SEC. Maybe that's why we're able to be more active in what we do. Because no one ever looks at the car or the jewelry and says, 'How did you get that, poor football player?' They say, 'How did they get you that and not get caught, poor football player?'"
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on April 14, 2016, 06:42:43 PM
That article was a pretty big topic on the local sports talk when it came out a couple years ago.  As long as I've lived here there's been allegations of just those things happening.  The most famous was how much Auburn paid Cam Newton to attend.  In the grand scheme, I could care less how they get their recruits.  Everyone that pays even cursory attention to college football knows/suspects that this is how it happens anyways.  So, no biggie.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 15, 2016, 11:09:07 AM
The Minecraft Generation

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 16, 2016, 06:08:31 AM
"history" of moderation on the web
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech


The "untouchables" - multination corporations
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/11/the-untouchables-zimbabwe-green-fuel-multinational-corporations/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 17, 2016, 07:40:36 AM
the war's toll on one man

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/what-the-war-did-to-andy-19691231
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 18, 2016, 07:08:30 PM
Monica Lewinksy, 20 years later
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson


The Woman with no memory
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographical-memory-sdam/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 18, 2016, 07:10:52 PM
Shame sticks...so much to say...
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on April 19, 2016, 11:33:49 AM
I have to say I have never once blamed Monica for what happened. Clinton all the way; and Hillary for defending him and attacking her.  >:(

Not that she doesn't bear some personal responsibility, too -- she made her choice for whatever reasons -- but he was the one in authority.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2016, 12:10:29 PM
It was disgusting how the lefties treated her back then and rallied around Billy-boy.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Sir Slash on April 19, 2016, 01:56:48 PM
Shame sticks but at least it doesn't leave a stain. Lewinsky had Bubba by the gonads-- literally and figuratively. She should've been able to turn that into solid gold one way or another. She should be getting $300,000 a speech.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 19, 2016, 02:10:49 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on April 19, 2016, 01:56:48 PMShe should be getting $300,000 a speech.

Maybe she's getting $350k for working with her mouth.   ^-^
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on April 24, 2016, 10:07:03 AM
A good read on liberals and "knowing."


http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 25, 2016, 09:55:28 AM
The middle of nowhere
https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.`

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 27, 2016, 08:33:12 AM
here's the Jerry Maguire "manifesto" from the movie, as written by Cameron Crowe and 'discovered' by the guys at The Uncool

http://www.theuncool.com/2016/04/25/jerry-maguire-mission-statement/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on April 30, 2016, 11:19:49 PM
A look back at 2112 on its 40th anniversary:


http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/30/476268876/all-the-gifts-of-life-40-years-of-rushs-2112
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on May 03, 2016, 11:03:11 PM
Charlamagne Tha god from 'The Breakfast Club'


http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/charlamagne-breakfast-club-hip-hop-morning-radio.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 04, 2016, 11:35:19 AM
Did not know this. Britney Spears has been under a court-appointed conservatorship since 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/arts/music/is-britney-spears-ready-to-stand-on-her-own.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2016, 08:41:15 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/business/an-ayn-rand-acolyte-selling-students-a-self-made-dream.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 07, 2016, 07:41:40 PM
the cheater's guide to love
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/23/the-cheaters-guide-to-love
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 03, 2016, 07:18:33 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/05/magazine/new-york-life.html?_r=0#/who-lives-up-there-living-at-high-altitude
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on June 04, 2016, 08:04:27 AM
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-bloody-mafia-war-in-montreal-isnt-ending-anytime-soon-2016-6


https://news.vice.com/article/narco-ties-embezzlement-and-topless-models-its-election-season-in-mexico
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2016, 11:57:19 AM
Chinese blockbuster movie goes off the deep end

https://read.atavist.com/sunk
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2016, 11:59:48 AM
HSBC's hacker who exposed their 'secrets'

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/herve-falcianis-great-swiss-bank-heist
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 15, 2016, 12:28:04 PM
Netflix

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/magazine/can-netflix-survive-in-the-new-world-it-created.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 15, 2016, 06:37:43 PM
I remember seeing quite a few articles 2-3 years ago all predicting the imminent demise of Netflix by the end of the year.  They still seem to be doing alright (despite the shit content they offer in Canada.)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 21, 2016, 08:08:23 AM
hoop dreams dashed

http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/lost-in-america/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2016, 05:39:47 PM
The new Panama Canal

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/22/world/americas/panama-canal.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on July 02, 2016, 03:30:24 PM
There is no such thing as 'free will.'


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on July 02, 2016, 03:31:54 PM
Quote from: MetalDog on July 02, 2016, 03:30:24 PM
There is no such thing as 'free will.'


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/

Ain't that the truth.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on July 03, 2016, 01:48:31 PM
If there was no such thing as free will, "we" wouldn't exist to be better off believing in it anyway.  :buck2: The analyses of the scientists arguing that free will doesn't exist, are themselves absolutely rooted in a tacit exception in favor of the scientists and their work. This ought to be a huge signal they're getting either their experiments or their conclusions from the experiment wrong.

But of course if even a little free will really does exist (no one disputes that a lot of our behaviors are purely automatic), that has massively huge logical implications, too. And ultimately religious implications. And the promoters of free will being an illusion, in modern science anyway, tend to have a vested ideological interest in atheism being true. When someone engages in a self-contradictory position that looks, on the surface, favorable to their ideology, that's a sign weighing in favor of them having salted the scales somewhere!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on July 03, 2016, 01:50:47 PM
QuoteSaul Smilansky, a philosophy professor at the University of Haifa, in Israel, has wrestled with this dilemma throughout his career and come to a painful conclusion: "We cannot afford for people to internalize the truth" about free will.

Spoken like someone who not only accepts he himself has (at least a little) free will, but who is nominally treating other people as though it's true they have free will, too! Screwdrivers do not "internalize the truth" about anything, even if they're as complexly operative as Furbees, or a Windows operating system.


Yeesh, that whole article was like watching people blithely running a shell game while other people applaud them for it.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 08, 2016, 02:26:31 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on July 14, 2016, 11:29:38 AM
"went"?  ::)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on July 31, 2016, 03:34:28 PM
The story of a perfect bid on The Price Is Right:


http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 31, 2016, 10:05:12 PM
Aaron Hernandez's brother

http://www.si.com/longform/2016/aaron-hernandez-brother-dj-hernandez/index.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2016, 05:52:21 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on August 02, 2016, 08:35:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2016, 05:52:21 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html

That was tough to read. :(
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 03, 2016, 09:27:46 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 02, 2016, 08:35:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2016, 05:52:21 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html

That was tough to read. :(

Yep. Heartbreaking.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on August 08, 2016, 06:01:03 AM
Reading the article makes him seem even slimier than the title would suggest:


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/08/video-of-silicon-valley-mogul-kicking-his-girlfriend-117-times-could-send-him-to-jail.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 11, 2016, 11:17:41 AM
Expanding the Information Superhighway

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-bandwidth-bottleneck-that-is-throttling-the-internet/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2016, 04:13:20 PM
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/slightly-more-than-100-exceptional-works-of-journalism/490622/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 14, 2016, 11:02:25 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html?_r=0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 15, 2016, 11:21:21 AM
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/jared-leto-the-unlikely-triumphs-of-a-rock-star-movie-star-w430833
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2016, 05:48:11 PM
Crime at Walmart

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 17, 2016, 05:54:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 17, 2016, 05:48:11 PM
Crime at Walmart

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/

you beat me to it - I was going to post that this evening after seeing it earlier today
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2016, 06:13:05 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 17, 2016, 05:54:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 17, 2016, 05:48:11 PM
Crime at Walmart

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/

you beat me to it - I was going to post that this evening after seeing it earlier today

This thread has me looking more for good articles. A few of the reads shared here have been outstanding.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 20, 2016, 04:46:08 PM
not as long as I'd like

http://futurism.com/mass-human-labor-is-no-longer-needed-where-do-we-go-from-here/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 21, 2016, 03:19:22 PM
Children's literature

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/01/why-the-british-tell-better-childrens-stories/422859/?utm_source=atlfb
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 22, 2016, 12:12:33 PM
who killed Gawker?

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html


Norm MacDonald needs a job
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/norm-macdonald/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 22, 2016, 01:22:18 PM
Taking on the army

http://www.stripes.com/news/a-wife-takes-on-army-to-restore-husband-s-honor-and-acquire-his-benefits-1.424906


fighting the state for custody of your kids
https://read.atavist.com/a-family-matter
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 23, 2016, 06:00:02 AM
not as long as you'd like...


Parental responsibility, from 3 years ago
http://us.cnn.com/2013/08/22/opinion/granderson-criminal-kids-responsibility/index.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 24, 2016, 10:12:57 AM
Rise & Fall of daily fantasy sports

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17374929/otl-investigates-implosion-daily-fantasy-sports-leaders-draftkings-fanduel


QuoteIn the weeks leading up to the 2015 NFL season, the two startup companies spent more on advertising than the entire American beer industry.
:o :o :o
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:34:26 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 24, 2016, 10:12:57 AM
QuoteIn the weeks leading up to the 2015 NFL season, the two startup companies spent more on advertising than the entire American beer industry.
:o :o :o

That's nutso. I remember last year how the ads flooded the radio and this year I haven't heard a single one.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 29, 2016, 10:58:20 AM
Social media and teens

http://www.wired.com/2016/08/how-teens-use-social-media/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Steelgrave on August 29, 2016, 01:23:13 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:34:26 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 24, 2016, 10:12:57 AM
QuoteIn the weeks leading up to the 2015 NFL season, the two startup companies spent more on advertising than the entire American beer industry.
:o :o :o

That's nutso. I remember last year how the ads flooded the radio and this year I haven't heard a single one.

Good riddance! Those damn ads made me nuts trying to listen to anything sports related!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 06, 2016, 07:39:26 AM
American Bison and football
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2016/9/2/12726546/buffalo

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 10, 2016, 07:17:59 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/world/americas/colombia-cocaine-human-rights.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 11, 2016, 08:37:26 AM
45 years building a strange monument in the Nevada desert

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/michael-heizers-city
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 12, 2016, 05:48:19 PM
Having spent four years living in Moscow, this one resonates with me a lot:

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/the-cold-war-is-over (https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/the-cold-war-is-over)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 13, 2016, 09:17:05 AM
Air Force One on 9/11
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 13, 2016, 10:42:36 AM
the death of a sociopathic parent

http://www.elle.com/life-love/a39035/death-abusive-father/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 13, 2016, 02:29:59 PM
fucking assholes

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 14, 2016, 06:20:55 PM
An Oral History of the GI Joe cartoon show

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/gi-joe-tv-show-oral-928423
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 27, 2016, 05:29:26 AM
"Designated Survivor" actually tames down the reality of Presidential succession

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/designated-survivor-president-succession-doomsday-plans-214271
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 27, 2016, 10:24:16 AM
One day I'm going to write something this good.  Maybe

http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/mike-ditka-is-the-spokesperson-for-a-generation-that-cant-handle-complexity.php
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on September 27, 2016, 07:40:07 PM
Huh.  I read that article and thought, "What a tool."

You can do better, Brant.  IMHO of course.  Your sexism article on the Front Pagetm was bounds better than that dribble in the posted article.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 30, 2016, 11:21:08 AM
The human toll behind lithium ion batteries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 30, 2016, 05:35:10 PM
(already posted this before)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 04, 2016, 03:15:42 PM
worlds youngest ex-dictator
https://www.buzzfeed.com/monicamark/what-do-you-do-with-your-life-after-youve-already-been-the-w?utm_term=.falx0NX5e#.wu1oW6NKM
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 06, 2016, 06:28:43 AM
seriously awesome sports story
http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/10/1/6872411/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-greg-maddux
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on October 06, 2016, 09:50:10 AM
Not especially long, but, I thought it brought up a good point:


http://www.vox.com/2016/9/14/12064226/marijuana-legalization-election-vote-california-2016?yptr=yahoo
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 17, 2016, 12:27:36 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/06/liquid-assets-how--business-bottled-water-went-mad

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

especially this one

http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/10/12/will-smith-death-new-orleans?noroute=true
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 24, 2016, 12:17:45 PM
The airplane crash no one could get to
http://www.outsideonline.com/2126426/what-happened-eastern-airlines-flight-980
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 24, 2016, 12:47:41 PM
body cameras & transparency and maybe it's a little too much sometimes?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/magazine/police-body-cameras.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 31, 2016, 10:44:04 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/sports/baseball/maurice-lerner-prospect-turned-mob-hitman.html

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/eight-women-in-love/

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on November 02, 2016, 11:47:19 AM
Just in time to be late for Halloween (...I mean my finding it, not the original article which was posted Oct 13, 2016):

Traveling Through Transylvania With 'Dracula' as a Guide (http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traveling-through-transylvania-with-dracula-as-a-guide)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 08, 2016, 02:28:18 PM
Football in a border town
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/11/01/high-school-football-brownsville-texas-matamoros-mexico-immigration


when was America great?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/when-was-america-great/


labor & politics in Nevada
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/us/politics/latina-hotel-workers-harness-force-of-labor-and-of-politics-in-las-vegas.html


World's most mysterious commute
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/06/design/north-korea-subway-commute/index.html


Sibling Rivalry btw Magic and Heroes
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/doctor-strange-magic-superhero-movies/


Equity vs Equality (not that I buy the argument, but it's an interesting perspective)
http://culturalorganizing.org/the-problem-with-that-equity-vs-equality-graphic/


Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 21, 2016, 06:36:30 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/11/19/a-texas-doctor-seeks-closure-for-migrants-who-die-crossing-the-border-from-mexico/?tid=sm_tw
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on November 27, 2016, 08:31:29 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/business/economy/desperately-plugging-holes-in-an-87-year-old-dam.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 29, 2016, 02:48:09 PM
the iPhone spyware

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-bill-marczak-spyware-can-control-the-iphone

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 29, 2016, 03:22:22 PM
McD's as a social hub
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks

the real problem with these guys is that they call themselves "journalists"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html
how we got here:  https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/2016-election-blew-up-in-facebooks-face

leaving white nationalist movements
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left-white-nationalism.html?&_r=0

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on November 29, 2016, 03:29:30 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 29, 2016, 02:48:09 PM
the iPhone spyware

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-bill-marczak-spyware-can-control-the-iphone



Good article.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on November 30, 2016, 07:42:18 PM
Making of Star Trek: First Contact

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-first-contact-next-generation-crews-greatest-movie-949885
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: JasonPratt on December 01, 2016, 03:24:00 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 30, 2016, 07:42:18 PM
Making of Star Trek: First Contact

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-first-contact-next-generation-crews-RELATIVELY-greatest-movie-949885

The address on the internet was wrong.  :))
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 02, 2016, 01:11:31 AM
how to piss off friends and take forever to get your album out

http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-12-01/the-story-behind-deliverance-by-corrosion-of-conformity
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 06, 2016, 12:13:23 PM
revenge porn lawyers
Star - watch out!

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-attorney-fighting-revenge-porn
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 06, 2016, 12:22:02 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 06, 2016, 12:13:23 PM
revenge porn lawyers
Star - watch out!

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-attorney-fighting-revenge-porn

Is it revenge porn when a stripper drives a car through your house?
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 06, 2016, 12:28:20 PM
more one than the other
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 07, 2016, 10:40:24 AM
How to hide $400 million
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-million.html

Most coveted Nintendo video game
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/18121761/the-true-story-nintendo-most-coveted-game


catching up with Elizabeth Smart
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/21/gone-girl-2


Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 08, 2016, 11:30:05 AM
how much is Google being manipulated into manipulating you?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 13, 2016, 09:59:22 AM
don't read this in public.  trust me

https://medium.com/@sophiesabbage/darling-mommy-might-die-e3449e4e1ddf#.y9rx6gx2m
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 13, 2016, 10:03:47 AM
not long, but still a good read

https://medium.com/@siguah/partys-over-ed6f844952a5#.bh4a0z3la
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 13, 2016, 10:17:19 AM
the day he died, and rebuilding his brain
https://medium.com/freethink/how-to-rebuild-a-broken-brain-41b237ce16fb#.l4c6so8pv

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 15, 2016, 10:58:47 AM
The stubbornness of WWII fighter design

https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-mustang-a-necessity-fd6063ff4893#.71gd3gwjz
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 16, 2016, 09:01:24 AM
How to kill a universe

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/star-wars-killed-a-universe-to-save-the-galaxy/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 19, 2016, 09:45:14 AM
Hollywood vs Guns

http://features.hollywoodreporter.com/the-gun-industrys-lucrative-relationship-with-hollywood/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 19, 2016, 09:46:32 AM
I've had a really good time the last few days during finals just exploring what's out there on Medium.  There are some great recommendations on their front page, and exploring some topics have yielded some excellent off-the-beaten-path articles I never would have otherwise touched.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 19, 2016, 11:48:40 AM
returning to a "Trump town"

https://medium.com/@abbievansickle/coming-home-to-a-trump-town-411aadfb4272#.4r3a47l17
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 19, 2016, 03:13:36 PM
this is an example of the fascinating stuff I've stumbled across on Medium

I find it well-written, vulnerable, engaging, and thoughtful
I never would've tried to find something like this
I'm not really sure how I feel about it all, but it's making me think, so that's not a bad thing
It's clearly relevant to my state at the moment, so there's that
The debate in the comment section is, sadly, not unlike other comment sections elsewhere

https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.3wzvdagi0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: MetalDog on December 21, 2016, 08:16:01 AM
An Afghan boy takes on the Taliban:


http://www.gq.com/story/wasil-ahmad-taliban-fighting-child-warrior
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 26, 2016, 08:25:40 AM
hunting the mafia - and being hunted - in Sicily

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/25/europe/pino-maniaci-mafia/index.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 29, 2016, 10:26:49 AM
child abuse in today's military

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-child-abuse-military-20161229-htmlstory.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 29, 2016, 02:01:25 PM
China's 'iPhone City'

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-china-foxconn.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 29, 2016, 08:20:15 PM
Rise of sci-fi

https://electricliterature.com/the-rise-of-science-fiction-from-pulp-mags-to-cyberpunk-e00f6efdcab0?source=reading_list---writing------71-4---------&gi=39a71014ec56
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 30, 2016, 07:38:38 AM
Your classroom is failing you

https://howwegettonext.com/your-classroom-is-making-you-fail-f3c9e8a986d3#.xpjmhegv3
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 04, 2017, 12:31:52 PM
being a widow in your 30s
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-widowhood-effect/article33344335/



short, but hurts...
How To Tell A Mother Her Child Is Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tell-a-mother-her-child-is-dead.html?_r=0



being Black in Naperville
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-being-black-naperville-america-st-0715-20160714-story.html



Over 11000 rape kits collected, and ignored
http://www.elle.com/culture/a37255/forgotten-rape-kits-detroit/



QuoteLaw enforcement logged nearly 16,800 calls in one year to Walmarts in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando counties, according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis. That's two calls an hour, every hour, every day.
http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/public-safety/walmart-police/



The ugly side of the NFL's return to LA
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14752649/the-real-story-nfl-owners-battle-bring-football-back-los-angeles



It wasn't just sexual abuse in the Catholic Church that the Boston Globe looked into. 
They also dug into private schools, too
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/06/private-schools-painful-secrets/OaRI9PFpRnCTJxCzko5hkN/story.html



WWIII by mistake...  not quite Wargames, but close
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/world-war-three-by-mistake



"Post-Truth"?  Or just flat out lying about things.  Talking US election in China
https://medium.com/@xuhulk/watching-the-election-from-the-post-truth-future-97a0d66bdcfe#.yyfzjekf6



Inside a Chicago gang and the gun violence
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/us/chicago-gang-violence.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: OJsDad on January 05, 2017, 08:34:24 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 04, 2017, 12:31:52 PM
Over 11000 rape kits collected, and ignored
http://www.elle.com/culture/a37255/forgotten-rape-kits-detroit/

When DeWine became state AG, he made it a priority to get all untested rape kits tested.  They're close to having the backlog completed, including the 4000 from Cleveland that were mentioned in the article.

http://www.cleveland.com/rape-kits/index.ssf/2016/11/state_crime_lab_finished_testi.html

A side article talking about relearning what we thought we knew about rapist.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2016/09/18/testing-of-backlogged-rape-kits-yield-new-insights-into-rapists-and-victims/109988.html

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on January 06, 2017, 05:21:52 AM
When the Canadian Army played professional hockey

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/sports/hockey/wwi-canadian-soldiers-national-hockey-association-stanley-cup.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 09, 2017, 11:16:25 PM
The mall and it's aesthetic in time

https://medium.com/@BillRoyce/baby-come-back-images-of-an-american-shopping-mall-before-its-death-8a6174af76f9?source=catalog_tab---------58----------
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 12, 2017, 06:15:59 AM
https://medium.com/the-mission/these-62-websites-will-make-you-incredibly-smarter-7eb89f122c2e#.tfhwgjca8
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on January 12, 2017, 06:51:54 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 12, 2017, 06:15:59 AM
https://medium.com/the-mission/these-62-websites-will-make-you-incredibly-smarter-7eb89f122c2e#.tfhwgjca8 (https://medium.com/the-mission/these-62-websites-will-make-you-incredibly-smarter-7eb89f122c2e#.tfhwgjca8)

Grogheads didn't make the list?  :o
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 12, 2017, 09:33:52 AM
https://www.thefword.org.uk/2017/01/i-wore-mens-clothes-for-a-month-and-it-changed-my-life/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 16, 2017, 02:27:52 PM
Writing a musical with David Bowie

http://www.gq.com/story/david-bowie-musical
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 23, 2017, 03:10:14 PM
Reading letters sent to the White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/magazine/what-americans-wrote-to-obama.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 23, 2017, 03:19:22 PM
how Putin stole Russia

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/12/18/how-he-and-his-cronies-stole-russia/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2017, 11:15:15 AM
the secret weapon in football recruiting...  the graphic designer?!?

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18565611/meet-kenton-stufflebeam-ohio-state-buckeyes-secret-recruiting-weapon
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2017, 11:26:28 AM
can you turn a terrorist back into a citizen?

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/can-you-turn-terrorist-back-into-citizen/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2017, 08:47:48 PM
this one might hurt to read.  the NFL screwed this guy...

http://buffalonews.com/2017/01/27/finding-nittmo/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2017, 10:20:38 PM
ultra-rich preppers

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bbmike on January 31, 2017, 06:25:38 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2017, 10:20:38 PM
ultra-rich preppers

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

These places are nice for aliens. It will give them mummies and artifacts to study when they visit a long dead Earth.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 02, 2017, 09:20:48 PM
How Image changed comics

https://theringer.com/image-comics-25-year-anniversary-the-walking-dead-e4774b7bffcd?source=reading_list---------39-1---------
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on February 03, 2017, 12:57:09 PM
Excellent piece comparing/contrasting two of the greatest tv shows of all time

http://www.vulture.com/2012/03/drama-derby-finals-the-wire-vs-the-sopranos.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 06, 2017, 01:59:53 PM
Football and assaults aren't just about college girls
http://www.si.com/college-football/2017/02/03/colorado-football-joe-tumpkin-assault-case
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 06, 2017, 03:52:25 PM
Why you hate the news
https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/medium-and-the-reason-you-cant-stand-the-news-anymore-c98068fec3f8#.aaab1r76x
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 06, 2017, 04:12:19 PM
Fuck ISIS
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/06/the-desperate-battle-to-destroy-isis
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on February 06, 2017, 10:17:14 PM
http://www.newsweek.com/why-baltimore-burning-man-who-wrote-wire-328905
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 08, 2017, 06:43:58 PM
America needs an enemy

https://warisboring.com/america-needs-an-enemy-any-enemy-b826003113ac#.dpk3w94cw
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Barthheart on February 08, 2017, 09:24:46 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 08, 2017, 06:43:58 PM
America needs an enemy

https://warisboring.com/america-needs-an-enemy-any-enemy-b826003113ac#.dpk3w94cw

Russia is your enemy! Always has been!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 09, 2017, 09:23:44 PM
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch/

How a school administrator smoked Jamie Oliver
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 11, 2017, 06:48:21 AM
excavating a greek tomb

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 10:14:09 AM
A missing US commando resurfaces 40 years later
https://magazine.atavist.com/mia
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
I'm going to have to read this one 2-3 more times before I think I'll have most of his points.  Some of it seems superficially farcical, but I have a feeling there's a deeper meaning I'm missing just yet.

Either way, it's making me think, and I'm finding it fascinating
https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046#.jew1eih2s
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on February 13, 2017, 07:44:39 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
I have a feeling there's a deeper meaning I'm missing just yet.

It's a certainty.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 08:37:53 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
I'm going to have to read this one 2-3 more times before I think I'll have most of his points.  Some of it seems superficially farcical, but I have a feeling there's a deeper meaning I'm missing just yet.

Either way, it's making me think, and I'm finding it fascinating
https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046#.jew1eih2s


linked to this, and a fascinating comparison that I think is borderline brilliant in its analysis
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5nktdn/why_hollywood_is_really_freaking_out_over_trump/


or maybe I'm just punch-drunk on reading too many idiotic pre-curriculum essays...
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 17, 2017, 09:43:15 AM
https://warontherocks.com/2017/02/a-comparative-guide-to-russias-use-of-force-measure-twice-invade-once/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 17, 2017, 09:01:13 PM
I'm not sure the quality of this one. It's long and I'm still reading. But I thought people would enjoy the read

https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb?source=reading_list---------28-3---------
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 20, 2017, 09:05:41 AM
OCD and the darkness

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/corey-hirsch-dark-dark-dark/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 20, 2017, 09:31:04 AM
the life and times of Amy Heckerling

https://theringer.com/amy-heckerling-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-clueless-female-directors-ee9568144c24#.59jefwoav
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 21, 2017, 05:36:34 PM
Not so much 'journalism' but I wanted to stash for later

https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/how-to-become-happier-healthier-and-more-successful-in-60-days-1d21933b51d3?source=reading_list---writing------1-4---------
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 01, 2017, 07:12:00 PM
back-to-basics writing
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-writing-revolution/309090/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2017, 12:47:13 PM
http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 03, 2017, 06:38:34 AM
How pop music evolved
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/genetic-data-tools-reveal-how-pop-music-evolved-in-the-us-48ad60bf495b#.ccfqcxa4g
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on March 05, 2017, 08:53:12 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 21, 2017, 05:36:34 PM
Not so much 'journalism' but I wanted to stash for later

https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/how-to-become-happier-healthier-and-more-successful-in-60-days-1d21933b51d3?source=reading_list---writing------1-4---------

It's pretty good; reminds me a lot of that thought piece you posted two new year's ago. 

I don't know that I can do the whole 60 day program in 60 days, but there are definitely some nuggets worth incorporating.  I like the side hustle idea...not sure how I'd do it, but it's a good idea.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 05, 2017, 08:56:43 AM
Quote from: Toonces on March 05, 2017, 08:53:12 AM
I like the side hustle idea...not sure how I'd do it, but it's a good idea.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs23.postimg.org%2Fdj84xvlxn%2Fimage.jpg&hash=23be0c94b1285af4e4541f6492d02f539634723b)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 05, 2017, 02:04:14 PM
https://warisboring.com/the-origin-of-american-democratic-fascism-9ef1d70e7e02#.yuon9ai5n
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2017, 10:43:24 AM
Failure, Inc
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18791367/tim-tebow-relentless-pursuit-failure
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2017, 10:54:01 AM
double-murder in a small military town
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1106-a-town-under-trial

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 08, 2017, 08:45:47 AM
How Standing Rock fell
https://extranewsfeed.com/the-true-story-of-how-standing-rock-fell-69d0151eb5b2#.b0tz1h93t

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 13, 2017, 05:52:03 AM
ooof

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/03/09/the-biggest-threat-facing-middle-age-men-isn-smoking-obesity-loneliness/k6saC9FnnHQCUbf5mJ8okL/story.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bbmike on March 13, 2017, 06:08:12 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2Fcbg.jpg&hash=7c6b322dfdd5a60d90c8b111f1ddac97ebd86a44)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 14, 2017, 06:19:33 AM
Word's Heaviest Man
http://www.gq.com/story/how-the-worlds-heaviest-man-lost-it-all
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 14, 2017, 11:46:43 AM
Hip Hop's "drank"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-09/hip-hop-s-unlikeliest-icons-promethazine-codeine-syrup-manufacturers
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 18, 2017, 07:18:26 PM
what happened to the creators of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/kerry-kevin-conran-what-happened/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 22, 2017, 12:14:22 PM
Hacking John Deere tractors

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 22, 2017, 07:29:26 PM
suing Facebook over Fake News
https://backchannel.com/the-face-of-terrorism-wants-his-life-back-c95cadf49aee#.kl77wrvih
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2017, 12:14:35 PM
videogames and the end of sleep

https://medium.com/@willpartin/videogames-and-the-end-of-sleep-19611ed1b8a#.fblqs85br
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2017, 04:43:22 PM
Lake Victoria is being swallowed by water hyacinth

https://medium.com/vantage-mag/the-death-of-lake-victoria-4f38526e2a56#.mn7rs7wvw
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 02, 2017, 02:57:52 PM
What's fake & what's real?  A cancer walk, or extended vacation?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/health/hfr-paulette-leaphart-naked-truth/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 05, 2017, 08:12:12 AM
not long, but very cool...  high school journalists find out incoming principal is a fake

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/these-high-school-journalists-investigated-a-new-principals-credentials-days-later-she-resigned/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 06, 2017, 02:04:04 PM
Where's Izzy?!

http://www.laweekly.com/music/wheres-izzy-searching-for-the-gnr-reunions-missing-person-7388840
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 08, 2017, 06:58:52 PM
fact-checking web-based news

https://medium.com/@holden/how-media-literacy-gets-web-misinformation-wrong-45aa6323829d
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Steelgrave on April 09, 2017, 02:36:08 PM
If you count yourself as any kind of military historian, you will love this article:

http://www.historynet.com/mentor-stars-story-little-known-general.htm (http://www.historynet.com/mentor-stars-story-little-known-general.htm)

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 12, 2017, 07:26:16 AM
tracking conspiracy theories

https://medium.com/@cambridge_uni/revealed-the-truth-behind-the-moon-landings-and-9-11-4bf8233b59d
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 17, 2017, 08:03:01 AM
the slave who escaped from George Washington

https://longreads.com/2017/03/06/the-slave-who-outwitted-george-washington/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 17, 2017, 10:02:32 AM
Is Mark Davis as think as we dumb he is?

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19143486/the-story-how-owner-mark-davis-moved-raiders-las-vegas
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 20, 2017, 07:50:26 PM
Chasing Amy 20 years later

https://www.buzzfeed.com/shannonkeating/chasing-amy-20-years-later?utm_term=.cxWMDGoEp#.dsNgNk8GO
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 21, 2017, 11:02:45 PM
Some good ideas in this one

https://medium.com/@milenarangelov/10-ways-less-is-more-f61a070a65c3?source=grid_home---8---ideas---2-4----------
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 21, 2017, 11:03:24 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 20, 2017, 07:50:26 PM
Chasing Amy 20 years later

https://www.buzzfeed.com/shannonkeating/chasing-amy-20-years-later?utm_term=.cxWMDGoEp#.dsNgNk8GO

Fuck you. I feel so old now
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 22, 2017, 07:31:39 AM
Google scans every book. Every book

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 24, 2017, 09:50:34 AM
Barbecue is America's most political food

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/americas-most-political-food
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 24, 2017, 10:25:07 AM
hunting Russian hackers

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/inside-the-hunt-for-russias-hackers
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 26, 2017, 06:08:43 PM
what bullets do to bodies
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/

thank God someone finally investigated this (and I mean in all sincerity, with no sarcasm)
https://theoutline.com/post/1409/saxophones-in-american-pop-music-history
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 02, 2017, 09:01:03 PM
http://bittersoutherner.com/digging-in-the-trash-david-joy
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 05, 2017, 10:30:30 AM
the President's "secret" Air Force

or "what you really need for a Presidential trip"

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on May 06, 2017, 06:43:47 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 02, 2017, 09:01:03 PM
http://bittersoutherner.com/digging-in-the-trash-david-joy

This was pretty good.  Sounds like a rough life.  The author is a very good writer, you can tell he's a novelist.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 08, 2017, 06:25:28 PM
interesting read here

https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/geopolitics-and-asias-little-divergence-e5a103eb0d9b
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 09, 2017, 11:27:26 AM
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/sapiosexuals-people-who-only-have-sex-with-smart-people
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 11, 2017, 05:25:23 AM
shorter, but a really good read

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/our-mothers-as-we-never-saw-them.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 11, 2017, 07:26:51 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/us/texas-border-migrants-dead-bodies.html

https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2017/abt/

https://www.outsideonline.com/2168646/how-does-entire-shipwreck-disappear-bolts-and-all

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-baseball-murder-20170428-htmlstory.html

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 13, 2017, 09:07:46 AM
soccer & civil war in Syria

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19343630/how-syrian-government-brought-soccer-campaign-oppression
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 09:08:28 AM
Israel-Palestine, beyond the headlines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/the-real-reason-the-israel-palestine-peace-process-always-fails
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 12:25:11 PM
"wasting time" = wasting money?
https://timeline.com/invention-of-wasted-time-mercantilism-e11df6f8dfa1
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 08:28:58 PM
"my family's slave"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on May 16, 2017, 09:00:43 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 08:28:58 PM
"my family's slave"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

OMGs but that was quite a read. I must have got something in my eye while I was reading it though...
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 17, 2017, 02:46:36 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 08:28:58 PM
"my family's slave"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/


follow-up
https://medium.com/kang-blog/alex-tizon-rip-again-518c197db57
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 11:13:09 AM
divorce ranches

https://timeline.com/reno-divorce-ranches-cowboys-c0539fa085b6
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on May 18, 2017, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x

To be honest I'd never been sure if I belong with the last of the boomers or the first of the Gen-Xers. I'm coming to the conclusion that it's probably the latter.

Also, after everything I've had to do to get by in life (esp. for my kids) this quote stuck out for me. I'm sure a number of you can identify:
QuoteCoupland feels "neutral" about millennials, he says. "I will say that pretty much everything they say about millennials is what they said about X except that millennials seem unable to cope when things don't go their way."



Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Barthheart on May 19, 2017, 07:16:58 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 18, 2017, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x

To be honest I'd never been sure if I belong with the last of the boomers or the first of the Gen-Xers. I'm coming to the conclusion that it's probably the latter.

Also, after everything I've had to do to get by in life (esp. for my kids) this quote stuck out for me. I'm sure a number of you can identify:
QuoteCoupland feels "neutral" about millennials, he says. "I will say that pretty much everything they say about millennials is what they said about X except that millennials seem unable to cope when things don't go their way."

Stagger, I think you are in the same age bracket that I am, 52, and I believe that makes us officially the last of the Boomers. I've never identified with the Gen X crowd, but that might be from being brought up in a military family.

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2017, 08:00:52 AM
The rule of thumb on GenX was always "if you were a teenager at some point in the 80s"

So if you were 18 and graduating high school in '81 or just starting middle school as a 13yo in '89, you're in that generation.

There's always going to be folks that sorry of float between generations. I actually have 2 uncles that really ought to count for GenX, not just by birth year, but by behavior as well, but can't bring themselves to identify with the same generation as their nieces and nephews instead of their brothers and sisters.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Barthheart on May 19, 2017, 08:04:43 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2017, 08:00:52 AM
The rule of thumb on GenX was always "if you were a teenager at some point in the 80s"

So if you were 18 and graduating high school in '81 or just starting middle school as a 13yo in '89, you're in that generation.

There's always going to be folks that sorry of float between generations. I actually have 2 uncles that really ought to count for GenX, not just by birth year, but by behavior as well, but can't bring themselves to identify with the same generation as their nice and nephews instead of their brothers and sisters.

Huh... never heard that rule of thumb before.... interesting...
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: trailrunner on May 19, 2017, 07:04:35 PM
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 23, 2017, 05:19:03 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x)

The Real World turns 25 this year
https://medium.com/@nilegirl/how-the-real-world-became-my-banner-for-reality-tv-e8f03ded7d32 (https://medium.com/@nilegirl/how-the-real-world-became-my-banner-for-reality-tv-e8f03ded7d32)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 24, 2017, 05:34:38 AM
https://backchannel.com/how-fonts-are-fueling-the-culture-wars-f9d692101fea
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 28, 2017, 11:18:30 AM
Child marriage in the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Crazy Girl on May 28, 2017, 12:22:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 28, 2017, 11:18:30 AM
Child marriage in the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html

Call me weak, but I couldn't finish reading that. I started to cry too hard for personal reasons. The world is a shitty place. What the hell is wrong with people? Sick. I can't deal with it. It's called LEGALIZED PEDOPHILIA. Maybe this is getting to personal, but I don't care. I have nothing to hide. I can't remember the 1st time I was molested. I remember the 1st time I was raped. Unfortunately that wasn't the last time. I was 14. (Interesting. Friction by Imagine Dragons is playing right now in the background. Very fitting.) A slap on the wrist is what they got. These a-holes are running around like nothing. I on the other hand go to therapy 1-3 times a weak. I have flashbacks, PTSD. I work and volunteer so much to keep busy. I read and listen to music all the time. I feel that my rapists are also thieves, not only my sense of security, but my natural thought process. They moved into my mind and honestly they need to move the f*out. I'm working on evicting them. I've been told this might never happen. Yay me... that's not cool. That's a life sentence.  So, I'm going to go read The Little Prince to my baby and think happy thoughts.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 29, 2017, 03:50:51 PM
Stolen Nuts
https://www.outsideonline.com/2186526/nut-job
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 29, 2017, 03:51:16 PM
Who Is A Parent?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/what-makes-a-parent
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 30, 2017, 01:24:35 PM
Grilled Cheese chain got burned
https://backchannel.com/how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese-venture-got-burnt-aa627b0c7ae1
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 30, 2017, 01:29:33 PM
Now I want a grilled cheese.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 30, 2017, 01:45:02 PM
x-posted from the RIP Frank Deford thread

https://www.si.com/vault/1984/04/30/630220/the-toughest-coach-there-ever-was
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 01, 2017, 09:31:18 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/31/us/a-mobster-a-family-and-the-crime-that-wont-let-them-go.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 02, 2017, 09:42:10 AM
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/06/travel/states-of-change/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 02, 2017, 12:39:57 PM
Autistic adults accidentally caught up in porn investigations

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/05/31/downloading-a-nightmare
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 04, 2017, 10:11:17 PM
pics from Tiananmen Square

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/asia/china-tiananmen-1989-photographs.html?_r=0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 05, 2017, 09:22:33 AM
the 1967 War in the Middle East

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39960461?SThisFB
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 05, 2017, 12:57:40 PM
2000 year old seed, and it still grows

https://timeline.com/methuselah-judean-date-palm-b3782ff1d731

Hey Windi, just like old times! :D
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 05, 2017, 10:43:40 PM
The Most Interesting Man in Beer Commercials

https://melmagazine.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-has-nothing-on-the-guy-who-made-him-famous-f427b02ebc96?source=grid_home---8------0-49----------1f79d9387f85&gi=7f2d26838639
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2017, 01:16:40 PM
What really happened with Vista? (little heavy on the tech stuff, but an interesting read)

https://hackernoon.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-4ca7ffb5a1a
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2017, 01:26:32 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 05, 2017, 10:43:40 PM
The Most Interesting Man in Beer Commercials

https://melmagazine.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-has-nothing-on-the-guy-who-made-him-famous-f427b02ebc96?source=grid_home---8------0-49----------1f79d9387f85&gi=7f2d26838639 (https://melmagazine.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-has-nothing-on-the-guy-who-made-him-famous-f427b02ebc96?source=grid_home---8------0-49----------1f79d9387f85&gi=7f2d26838639)

This is a great read  O0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2017, 02:26:59 PM
Font wars

https://backchannel.com/how-fonts-are-fueling-the-culture-wars-f9d692101fea
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2017, 03:04:41 PM
Massacre in El Salvador
https://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-el-mozote-the-worst-massacre-in-modern-latin-american-history/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2017, 12:08:21 PM
What went wrong with Mass Effect: Andromeda

https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2017, 12:15:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future

For the past few years I've thought that the stylistic heir to the Blade Runner was the remake of Total Recall with Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell.  That movie really looks like someone just moved the Blade Runner sets 10 years further into the future and then turned the lights on.  It's not nearly as good of a movie.  I'm just talking about the visual/set design.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2017, 12:20:07 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2017, 12:15:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future

For the past few years I've thought that the stylistic heir to the Blade Runner was the remake of Total Recall with Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell.  That movie really looks like someone just moved the Blade Runner sets 10 years further into the future and then turned the lights on.  It's not nearly as good of a movie.  I'm just talking about the visual/set design.

Haven't seen it. I'll have to check it out.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Barthheart on June 07, 2017, 02:02:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 12:20:07 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2017, 12:15:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future

For the past few years I've thought that the stylistic heir to the Blade Runner was the remake of Total Recall with Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell.  That movie really looks like someone just moved the Blade Runner sets 10 years further into the future and then turned the lights on.  It's not nearly as good of a movie.  I'm just talking about the visual/set design.

Haven't seen it. I'll have to check it out.

It's worth seeing just for Kate....   :dreamer:
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2017, 02:20:16 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on June 07, 2017, 02:02:35 PM
It's worth seeing just for Kate....   :dreamer:

hell.  yes.

(incidentally, I share a birthday with her  :smitten: :smitten:)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 08, 2017, 09:59:31 AM
Chapecoense coming back from tragedy

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19444318/the-unthinkable-fate-chapecoense
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 09, 2017, 10:16:06 PM
consent, VR, and the future of porn
https://medium.com/@Sprott/consent-in-vr-porn-b83de7d4e39c

(SFW - it's an article, not a 'how to')
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 11, 2017, 10:55:39 PM
the end of a baseball team
http://buffalonews.com/2017/06/08/curveball-ubs-decision-cut-baseball-impacted-programs-final-season-everyone-involved/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2017, 04:57:35 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/business/energy-environment/oil-north-sea-shell.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 19, 2017, 06:49:54 AM
"But mostly because of the Los Alamos lab's safety deficiencies, it hasn't produced a usable new warhead core in at least six years."

https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence/near-disaster/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 20, 2017, 01:21:32 PM
Some of Frank Deford's greatest hits:

https://www.si.com/vault/1985/06/17/622490/the-boxer-and-the-blonde
and https://www.si.com/boxing/2015/03/06/si-60-qa-frank-deford-boxer-and-blonde


https://www.si.com/vault/2003/08/25/348692/giants-among-men-exactly-100-years-ago-christy-mathewson-and-john-mcgraw-rescued-the-woeful-new-york-giants-and-helped-make-baseball-the-true-national-pastime


https://www.si.com/vault/1981/01/26/825311/the-rabbit-hunter-bobby-knight-may-be-tremendously-successful-on-the-court-but-off-it-indianas-controversial-basketball-coach-often-stalks-the-insignificant


https://www.si.com/vault/1999/05/10/260658/the-ring-leader-the-greatest-team-player-of-all-time-bill-russell-was-the-hub-of-a-celtics-dynasty-that-ruled-its-sport-as-no-other-team-ever-has


https://www.si.com/vault/1979/02/05/823356/hot-rod-is-hitting-the-road-again


this is as much for my personal record-keeping as anything, but that Bill Russell article is a must-read, and I've (somehow) never read "The Boxer and the Blonde" so that's on tonight's hit-list for bedtime reading.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 20, 2017, 02:27:19 PM
a war crime in the drug war
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/making-of-a-massacre-mexico/


(just a warning - this one is hard to read.  the pics aren't overly-graphic, but the stories are just horrible)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 20, 2017, 02:41:39 PM
investigating a death in Florida
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/michelle-oconnell-jeremy-banks.html

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 21, 2017, 07:23:47 PM
An oral history of Predator

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/predator-oral-history-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-1014132
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 21, 2017, 07:25:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 21, 2017, 07:23:47 PM
An oral history of Predator

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/predator-oral-history-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-1014132

the movie that spawned 2 governors and a candidate for a third!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 21, 2017, 07:38:14 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 21, 2017, 07:25:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 21, 2017, 07:23:47 PM
An oral history of Predator

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/predator-oral-history-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-1014132

the movie that spawned 2 governors and a candidate for a third!

I forgot Jean Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 21, 2017, 09:37:21 PM
Sonny Langham ran for governor of Kentucky
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 26, 2017, 04:21:04 PM
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/police-domestic-violence/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 26, 2017, 04:35:08 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 26, 2017, 04:21:04 PM
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/police-domestic-violence/ (http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/police-domestic-violence/)
:tickedoff:
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:17:03 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 29, 2017, 11:32:02 AM
Quote from: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:17:03 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html

Yeah, I've got some friends who have worked and lived in HK, and every single one of them comes back and says "in the X years I was there, it's gone 'more Chinese' every year" and that includes a pretty high-ranking CEO (of a .com y'all know) whose sister is married to one of my best friends.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 29, 2017, 02:00:00 PM
Creator of Ethereum

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/the-uncanny-mind-that-built-ethereum/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 06, 2017, 10:09:39 AM
rebooting Spiderman

https://theringer.com/spider-man-homecoming-iconic-character-reboot-relevance-c4f24412caa5
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 06, 2017, 10:52:27 AM
Syria, about 8 years ago....
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-syria-temptation-and-why-obama-must-resist-it/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:03 AM
http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/semaj-booker-made-headlines-at-age-9-for-running-away-his-life-since-then-reveals-a-familiar-pattern-2/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2017, 12:06:30 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland

Do we need to hunt for the link?
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2017, 12:07:15 PM
Well worth a read

https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 12:16:26 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2017, 12:18:46 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 12:16:26 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold)

O0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 10, 2017, 09:38:41 AM
Political protest in the '78 World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/football/in-bed-with-maradona/2017/jul/05/1978-world-cup-argentina-political-protest-goalposts
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on July 10, 2017, 06:51:34 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 10, 2017, 09:38:41 AM
Political protest in the '78 World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/football/in-bed-with-maradona/2017/jul/05/1978-world-cup-argentina-political-protest-goalposts

Believe it or not, my family GP was at that match. Being a good Dutch-American, he rooted for the Orange.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: trailrunner on July 12, 2017, 06:27:15 AM
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-exclusive

My apologies if this has already been posted.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 13, 2017, 07:48:54 AM
the mysterious Phil Ivey

https://theringer.com/phil-ivey-world-series-of-poker-51cd56b8cccf
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 17, 2017, 12:23:21 PM
best 9-year-old basketball player in the US
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2017/07/13/in-neiko-primus-the-basketball-world-sees-a-phenom-his-mom-sees-a-kid-with-only-one-childhood/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 17, 2017, 12:34:50 PM
Oral history of Meatballs

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/meatballs-movie-an-oral-history
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2017, 12:39:28 PM
^cool find. Variety does some nice pieces.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Barthheart on July 17, 2017, 01:00:35 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 17, 2017, 12:34:50 PM
Oral history of Meatballs

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/meatballs-movie-an-oral-history

That's a fun read..... need to watch the movie again.... soon....
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on July 18, 2017, 05:32:43 PM
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-real-reason-why-joss-whedon-named-his-space-western-1614273050
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 24, 2017, 12:11:17 PM
the war for your attention

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511488de
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 24, 2017, 01:17:27 PM
becoming a statistic

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/24/the-life-of-a-south-central-statistic
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 28, 2017, 02:06:22 PM
surviving the most-talked-about plane crash in South America

https://www.si.com/longform/2017/chapecoense-brazil-soccer-plane-crash-tragedy-survivors/index.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 01, 2017, 06:41:02 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/magazine/she-was-convicted-of-killing-her-mother-prosecutors-withheld-the-evidence-that-would-have-freed-her.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 04, 2017, 11:48:37 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 04, 2017, 11:56:39 AM
the 5'2" girl who saved a football season
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/20229005/high-school-girl-saves-football-season-fading-texas-town
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on August 07, 2017, 11:56:58 AM
That voyager article was really good, mirth.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 08, 2017, 07:56:29 AM
not too long, but a good read on a former user/dealer fighting addiction overdoses

https://medium.com/@zacharyasiegel/how-a-group-of-rebels-are-taking-on-americas-addiction-epidemic-7af6c8f07267
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 13, 2017, 02:32:47 PM
Interview with Woody Harrelson

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-harrelson-how-he-went-anonymous-poor-supervillain-1019913
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 14, 2017, 06:10:37 AM
Quote from: mirth on August 13, 2017, 02:32:47 PM
Interview with Woody Harrelson

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-harrelson-how-he-went-anonymous-poor-supervillain-1019913

good read, thanks
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 14, 2017, 02:11:55 PM
living in another kind of clouds

https://www.outsideonline.com/2231051/living-cloud
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 21, 2017, 10:09:32 AM
H.O.L.Y. Fuck.
http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/tampa-electric/big-bend-hellfire-from-above/

QuoteWorkers were trying to remove a blockage from a 30-foot-tall tank beneath the power plant's boiler. The tank catches the molten ash that forms when coal burns — called slag — and cools it into harmless pebbles.

Because Tampa Electric kept the unit running, hot slag was building up overhead while the workers cleaned out the tank below.

The slag was supposed to stay trapped in the boiler. Instead, it poured down on the men.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 21, 2017, 10:16:24 AM
^Goddamn. I hope someone goes to prison for that.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 23, 2017, 08:18:04 AM
starting a new basketball league

https://www.theringer.com/sports/2017/8/23/16184910/champions-basketball-league-launch-delay
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2017, 08:10:09 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/afghanistan-graveyard-empires-historical-pictures.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 06, 2017, 05:48:27 AM
death of a hockey player
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/09/02/hockey-pro-dies-and-coach-said-raped-him-free/fRGNZ0cZaUOcj5WtVI9GeO/story.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 09, 2017, 10:44:55 AM
More ATF problems

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 12, 2017, 08:38:38 AM
The Cajun Navy

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-downloaded-an-app-And-suddenly-I-was-talking-12172506.php



You can't un-read this story, and you won't want to
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 12, 2017, 09:25:54 AM
One week of heroin
http://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-heroin-epidemic-cincinnati/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 13, 2017, 07:36:37 PM
Batman: The Animated Series at 25

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-animated-series-hirings-firings-last-minute-changes-1035120
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 17, 2017, 09:35:55 AM
Brazil's Confederados

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gq8ae9/welcome-to-americana-brazil-0000580-v22n2
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 17, 2017, 09:42:17 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 22, 2017, 07:53:17 AM
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-companies-through-their-helpdesk-b7680ddc2d4c
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2017, 07:25:55 AM
Remember reading magazines?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/media/the-not-so-glossy-future-of-magazines.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 26, 2017, 06:07:36 AM
Digital lynch mobs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 28, 2017, 06:34:12 AM
Air Force missileers

Yes, from Marie Claire

http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a29275/air-force-nuclear-missileers/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 28, 2017, 06:41:56 AM
The costs of college

https://story.californiasunday.com/cost-of-college
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 02, 2017, 09:23:07 AM
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-ever-happened-to-russian-revolution-180964768/

http://reprints.longform.org/death-of-a-playmate

team-mates
https://theathletic.com/113671/2017/09/29/gammons-on-david-price-and-the-definition-of-what-it-means-to-be-a-good-teammate/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 02, 2017, 11:09:43 AM
when TRL ruled Times Square.

https://www.theringer.com/music/2017/10/2/16394708/trl-behind-the-scenes



and MTV actually played videos!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 03, 2017, 10:22:20 AM
https://medium.com/bbc-news-labs/beyond-800-words-new-digital-story-formats-for-news-ab9b2a2d0e0d
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 09, 2017, 08:58:10 AM
Scraping by in West Virginia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/disabled-and-scraping-by-in-the-underground-economy/2017/10/06/4ebcf4f2-8102-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.11720dfdc21a
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on October 09, 2017, 09:44:13 AM
^ That's some tough livin'.  I mean, Milwaulkie's Best?   #:-)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 09, 2017, 09:48:14 AM
Quote from: Toonces on October 09, 2017, 09:44:13 AM
^ That's some tough livin'.  I mean, Milwaulkie's Best?   #:-)

Is that for when they can't afford Milwaulkee's Best
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on October 09, 2017, 01:23:43 PM
I knew it didn't look right, but autocorrect didn't catch it for some reason.   ::)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 09, 2017, 01:27:07 PM
Quote from: Toonces on October 09, 2017, 01:23:43 PM
I knew it didn't look right, but autocorrect didn't catch it for some reason.   ::)

sometimes spellcheck doesn't go for capitalized words, figuring names are all over the place
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 12, 2017, 05:44:23 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/music/robert-plant-carry-fire.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 12, 2017, 07:07:46 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/south-carolina-jail-no-lawyer.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 12, 2017, 07:56:24 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 12, 2017, 07:07:46 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/south-carolina-jail-no-lawyer.html

Having lived in South Carolina for almost five years, and still having friends in the law enforcement Community there, it is no surprise at all to me that it is generally a disaster once someone enters the system
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 15, 2017, 09:50:57 PM
not truly journalism, but still a good read

https://ofteninspired.com/pawn-gun
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 16, 2017, 11:02:39 AM
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-story-daring-cliffhanger-803642
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 16, 2017, 11:33:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 16, 2017, 11:34:47 AM
here's one to piss you off

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 16, 2017, 11:37:09 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 16, 2017, 11:33:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html)

read that the other day. Hope people figure out that using Russian AV software might not be a great plan.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 16, 2017, 11:38:20 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 16, 2017, 11:34:47 AM
here's one to piss you off

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/)


Saw that too  :pullhair:
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 18, 2017, 06:07:31 AM
another nut-job secret society?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html?_r=0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 20, 2017, 10:35:36 AM
Southern rural ruins

http://bittersoutherner.com/rural-ruins-vanishing-south-georgia
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 22, 2017, 08:02:18 AM
https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars


TL;DR - don't buy a Casper
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 05:59:00 AM
https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-nam-accidental-assassination

Killing Kim Jong-nam
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 09:08:32 AM
Mirth has hope again...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/hook-line-and-sinker/542748/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 09:11:46 AM
intentional physical violence in a white supremacist group

https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 10:07:22 AM
when $4 + $4 = $365

https://www.propublica.org/article/horizon-pharma-vimovo-common-medication-455-million-specialty-pill
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 10:12:54 AM
The family that's profiting from the Opiod crisis

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

QuoteTHE FAMILY'S LEADERS HAVE PULLED OFF THREE OF THE GREAT MARKETING TRIUMPHS OF THE MODERN ERA: THE FIRST IS SELLING OXYCONTIN; THE SECOND IS PROMOTING THE SACKLER NAME; AND THE THIRD IS ENSURING THAT, AS FAR AS THE PUBLIC IS AWARE, THE FIRST AND THE SECOND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE ANOTHER.

also in the same article

Quote"The Fords, Hewletts, Packards, Johnsons—all those families put their name on their product because they were proud," said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine who has written extensively about the opioid crisis. "The Sacklers have hidden their connection to their product. They don't call it 'Sackler Pharma.' They don't call their pills 'Sackler pills.' And when they're questioned, they say, 'Well, it's a privately held firm, we're a family, we like to keep our privacy, you understand.' "


and

Quotebecame one of the first inductees into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame.

what does it say about our country that we even have a "Medical Advertising Hall of Fame"
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:29:50 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 10:12:54 AM
what does it say about our country that we even have a "Medical Advertising Hall of Fame"

That we're fooked.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:43:30 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....

And now I am forced to participate or pay a fine. Murica!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bbmike on October 23, 2017, 10:50:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:43:30 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....

And now I am forced to participate or pay a fine. Murica!

So start smoking and get yer money's worth!  O0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 10:51:01 AM
https://www.ourstate.com/hart-square-village/

preserving a ghost town
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:55:18 AM
Quote from: bbmike on October 23, 2017, 10:50:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:43:30 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....

And now I am forced to participate or pay a fine. Murica!

So start smoking and get yer money's worth!  O0

My new liver is going to make it all worthwhile.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 24, 2017, 10:41:55 AM
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2017, 08:05:04 PM
a weekend with the preppers

https://melmagazine.com/the-doomsday-preppers-time-has-finally-come-f51059683968
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2017, 08:55:40 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2017, 08:05:04 PM
a weekend with the peppers

The bell peppers? The Dr Peppers?
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2017, 09:19:10 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 26, 2017, 08:55:40 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2017, 08:05:04 PM
a weekend with the peppers

The bell peppers? The Dr Peppers?

apparently autocorrect doesn't recognize "preppers"
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on October 27, 2017, 07:24:26 AM
Those Atlantic articles are like Lays potato chips.

This article really resonated with me, and the challenges I'm facing with my 15 year-old and his phone/social media/etc.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 31, 2017, 09:13:29 AM
we've had these issues in our house

https://longreads.com/2017/10/26/no-fatties-when-healthcare-hurts/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 31, 2017, 09:14:32 AM
Quote from: Toonces on October 27, 2017, 07:24:26 AM
This article really resonated with me, and the challenges I'm facing with my 15 year-old and his phone/social media/etc.

you really ought to read this one
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 31, 2017, 09:20:28 AM
https://harpers.org/archive/2017/11/pushing-the-limit/?src=longreads
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on October 31, 2017, 11:57:24 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-luke-skywalker-mark-hamill.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 06, 2017, 12:59:32 PM
Kid genius

https://magazine.atavist.com/promethea-unbound-child-genius-montana?src=longreads
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 06, 2017, 07:58:36 PM
https://theestablishment.co/what-its-like-to-be-a-female-war-correspondent-in-the-middle-east-6c410e326463
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 07, 2017, 06:06:44 AM
talking about rape in 'football culture'

https://www.theringer.com/features/2017/11/6/16599528/brenda-tracy-advocate-against-college-football-rape-culture
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2017, 08:36:49 AM
email bombs

https://www.propublica.org/article/cheap-tricks-the-low-cost-of-internet-harassment
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 10, 2017, 09:00:41 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2017, 08:36:49 AM
email bombs

https://www.propublica.org/article/cheap-tricks-the-low-cost-of-internet-harassment

Ugh. That intro rubbed me totally the wrong way. I don't care if her poor widdle arms were tingling from overexertion in typing and really don't give a shite about her yoga poses. That's some crap reporting, there.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on November 10, 2017, 01:26:07 PM
^ Somebody didn't read past the first paragraph.   ::)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 10, 2017, 02:01:19 PM
Quote from: Toonces on November 10, 2017, 01:26:07 PM
^ Somebody didn't read past the first paragraph.   ::)

QuoteIt was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax. After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story — and typing so much that my forearms tingled — I needed to decompress.

Yep.

I get embellishment - hell I do it all the time, but I don't consider my pieces to be anywhere near quality journalism.

Maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2017, 02:53:15 PM
Maybe?
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 12, 2017, 07:08:45 PM
holy shit
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html?_r=0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 13, 2017, 11:34:11 AM
Bride of the Jihad

https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-convert/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 13, 2017, 11:40:56 AM
Playing hockey in North Korea

https://theathletic.com/132538/2017/10/20/north-korea-hockey-friendship-league-alex-frecon-scott-howe/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 16, 2017, 06:45:06 AM
religious betrayal?
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/03/washington-dc-peeping-rabbi-barry-freundel-voyeurism-case/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 19, 2017, 11:51:51 AM
tracking backwards thru Pizzagate

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/pizzagate-anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-w511904
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 20, 2017, 07:43:26 AM
Teaching about war

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/teaching-students-about-war/545351/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 27, 2017, 10:36:02 AM
making an American nazi

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 27, 2017, 10:38:52 AM
https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-womans-digital-life-was-weaponized-against-her/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:26:24 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/movies/the-shape-of-water-meet-guillermo-del-toro-doug-jones.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 29, 2017, 07:44:35 PM
where everyone got into college?

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/28/564054556/what-really-happened-at-the-school-where-every-senior-got-into-college
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 04, 2017, 09:48:31 AM
Admiral's son and opioid addiction (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/an-epidemic-from-which-no-one-is-safe/546773/?utm_source=grogheads)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 04, 2017, 10:00:56 AM
an excellent thread on Twitter about journalism's place in society, along with some predictably trollish responses

click thru to read the rest of the thread

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/935920379612352512
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 05, 2017, 10:24:18 AM
pregnant & addicted

https://medium.com/@rachelmabe/pregnant-and-addicted-ed5885afbbdb
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 05, 2017, 10:26:14 AM
the short version of "What Color is Your Parachute"

https://betterhumans.coach.me/the-japanese-concept-ikigai-is-a-formula-for-happiness-and-meaning-8e497e5afa99
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 07, 2017, 06:23:41 AM
payback is a bitch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 07, 2017, 07:04:30 AM
^good read
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 07, 2017, 07:45:52 PM
(multiple articles)

Homelessness on the West Coast

https://apnews.com/tag/HomelessCrisis
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 07, 2017, 10:51:31 PM
North Korean Ghost Ships

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/world/asia/japan-north-korea-ghost-ships.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 10, 2017, 10:18:26 AM
University of Adidas at Louisville

http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/21710106/louisville-athletic-director-tom-jurich-leveraged-big-deals-build-university-sports-powerhouse-only-watch-burn-amid-charges-excess
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 11, 2017, 10:11:22 AM
https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/10/best-journalism-writing-reporting-2017-media-circus
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 11, 2017, 10:21:46 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 11, 2017, 10:11:22 AM
https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/10/best-journalism-writing-reporting-2017-media-circus

That's going to keep me busy for awhile.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 13, 2017, 07:08:43 PM
Death of the Movies

https://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: trailrunner on December 17, 2017, 08:34:27 PM
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 17, 2017, 08:42:03 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on December 17, 2017, 08:34:27 PM
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html)
that's kinda cool :)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: trailrunner on December 17, 2017, 09:07:35 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 17, 2017, 08:42:03 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on December 17, 2017, 08:34:27 PM
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html)
that's kinda cool :)

Yeah, I love reading about the world behind the scenes.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 18, 2017, 11:49:05 PM
Tough read

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: trailrunner on December 19, 2017, 06:24:05 AM
https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 21, 2017, 04:57:16 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 21, 2017, 06:22:08 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 21, 2017, 04:57:16 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html

I thought you didn't believe in climate change, since we couldn't actually observe its effects....  ::)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 21, 2017, 06:46:34 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 21, 2017, 06:22:08 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 21, 2017, 04:57:16 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html)

I thought you didn't believe in climate change, since we couldn't actually observe its effects....  ::)

What the fuck are you talking about?  :uglystupid2:
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 22, 2017, 09:28:44 AM
this one really hurts to read

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/12/21/56-miles-from-temptation-disabled-addicted-and-desperately-trying-to-save-their-marriage/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 29, 2017, 08:26:28 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Emeraldlis on December 29, 2017, 09:06:00 AM
Quote from: mirth on December 18, 2017, 11:49:05 PM
Tough read

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html

That was an extremely long article! Lol, more like a short story! But what I did read of it was extremely interesting. I'm always fascinated with everest, and why people risk their lives to get to the top. That was heartbreaking though, for the family's left behind when the person climbing everest dies, so sad.
The video clips and pics of the mountain were awesome, really spectacular  :dreamer: enjoyed the perusal  O0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on December 31, 2017, 01:24:19 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/world/europe/north-korea-poland-workers.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 04, 2018, 08:49:44 AM
not as long as I'd prefer, but very interesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/science/native-americans-beringia-siberia.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Emeraldlis on January 04, 2018, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 04, 2018, 08:49:44 AM
not as long as I'd prefer, but very interesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/science/native-americans-beringia-siberia.html


It was an interesting read , I like a good archaeological dig ! We studied Native American history in highschool ...in history , go figure ! And I've always had a fascination with their culture and way of life , even before I studied it in school . I thought the map was a great addition to that article , showing the lost land mass of Beringia . I've heard the theory before that they came across a land bridge from Siberia , that has long since disappeared , but it's cool to have that theory confirmed in their dna . I enjoyed the read  O0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on January 05, 2018, 09:50:12 AM
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-times-reporter-in-the-shadow-of-the-war-on-terror/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2018, 10:51:09 AM
Frankie Lymon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/teen-idol-frankie-lymon-tragic-rise-fall-tells-truth-1950s-america-180967506/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2018, 10:58:12 AM
fighting against addiction counseling scams

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/drug-addiction-ads.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Emeraldlis on January 05, 2018, 01:16:06 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2018, 10:51:09 AM
Frankie Lymon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/teen-idol-frankie-lymon-tragic-rise-fall-tells-truth-1950s-america-180967506/

That's so sad , I had no idea he died so young from heroin addiction  :'( I've watched that black and white clip before on YouTube of him singing . Every time I see the 'T' on the jumpers , it makes me think of the t-birds from grease ! I know it stands for teenagers though in this case ! I've seen one clip of him singing , and you can see some of the girls in the audience pulling a face . It's very sad that he had to deal with that kind of racism .As did a lot of others .
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2018, 03:51:10 PM
cracks in the Patriots?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/hotread180105/beginning-end-new-england-patriots-robert-kraft-tom-brady-bill-belichick-internal-power-struggle
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2018, 04:39:21 PM
Ring around the lost colony

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-roanoke-endures-yet-another-cruel-twist-180962837/?utm_source=keywee-facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=keywee&kwp_0=412981&kwp_4=2119315&kwp_1=885363
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Emeraldlis on January 05, 2018, 06:46:43 PM
^I like a good archeological plot twist ! Good article . I've been to Sir Francis Drake's home in Devon , legend has it , that he was supposed to be playing bowls on his front lawn when the Spanish Armada was spotted ( from st michaels mount in penzance .Ive been there too ) I have a small wooden ornament that I bought from the gift shop at Drakes house . It's carved from a yew tree that was standing in Drake's day .Apparently there was a storm that brought a row of yew trees down , and the trust that owns the house decided to use the wood for carvings to make money for the estate . I liked the map in the article of some of the NC coastline , and the sailing ship on the map looks great .
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 07, 2018, 07:44:38 PM
seceding in Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 08, 2018, 11:24:43 AM
RT:  Media outlet, or Russian Propaganda Weapon?

https://medium.com/dfrlab/question-that-rts-military-mission-4c4bd9f72c88
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on January 08, 2018, 11:33:30 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 08, 2018, 11:24:43 AM
RT:  Media outlet, or Russian Propaganda Weapon?

https://medium.com/dfrlab/question-that-rts-military-mission-4c4bd9f72c88

Is that even a question? It's pretty obviously a propaganda tool for the Russian government. I think everyone outside of Russia gets that.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 08, 2018, 11:40:30 AM
yea, but these guys have actual evidence to demonstrate it
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on January 08, 2018, 11:41:39 AM
Sorta like proving water is wet.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Toonces on January 11, 2018, 08:39:40 AM
Quote from: Emeraldlis on December 29, 2017, 09:06:00 AM
Quote from: mirth on December 18, 2017, 11:49:05 PM
Tough read

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html

That was an extremely long article! Lol, more like a short story! But what I did read of it was extremely interesting. I'm always fascinated with everest, and why people risk their lives to get to the top. That was heartbreaking though, for the family's left behind when the person climbing everest dies, so sad.
The video clips and pics of the mountain were awesome, really spectacular  :dreamer: enjoyed the perusal  O0

Agreed, that was a really good article.  I didn't find it all that tough to read.  I'm empathetic with those families that were left behind, but those guys knew what they were getting themselves into.  In fact, I was a bit pissed that they didn't discuss what to do if they died with their families. 

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 11, 2018, 10:38:56 AM
Igor Larionov's daughter and her struggle with anorexia

https://theathletic.com/195738/2018/01/08/alyonka-larionov-an-untitled-female-no-more/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 16, 2018, 11:40:55 AM
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/22046031/michigan-state-university-doctor-larry-nassar-surrounded-enablers-abused-athletes-espn
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 20, 2018, 07:45:15 AM
not too long, but kinda cool

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-stories-behind-brian-griffins-portraits-of-seventies-and-eighties-rock-stars
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 23, 2018, 11:01:52 AM
in the event of a real nuclear attack...

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15157970/america-nuclear-bomb-plan/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 23, 2018, 11:03:40 AM
the fall of Uber's CEO

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 05, 2018, 03:23:54 PM
richest farmer in America

https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 05, 2018, 07:25:31 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/sunday/nfl-cte-brain-damage.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 11, 2018, 11:34:45 AM
life after Steve McNair

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22349868/the-family-tennessee-titans-legend-steve-mcnair-left-behind
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 05:57:41 PM
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/groundhog-day-at-25-bill-murray-1202691391/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2018, 11:04:49 AM
ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rakhine-events/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 17, 2018, 08:32:56 PM
not super-long, but a great read

https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2018/02/life-in-the-woods-north-carolinas-growing-homeless-tent-camps-are-an-open-secret/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 21, 2018, 06:07:57 AM
ideological infighting at Facebook

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 21, 2018, 06:14:49 AM
reporting while female

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-female-harassment-journalism.php

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 23, 2018, 01:38:31 PM
A childhood on the run...  for a hoax?

http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42951788
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 26, 2018, 06:01:49 AM
Monica Lewinsky looking back on 20 years

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 26, 2018, 06:52:57 AM
The room-mate from hell

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Emeraldlis on February 27, 2018, 06:14:21 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 17, 2018, 08:32:56 PM
not super-long, but a great read

https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2018/02/life-in-the-woods-north-carolinas-growing-homeless-tent-camps-are-an-open-secret/

Can't believe we still have homelessness in affluent countries. It's bad anywhere in the world, but seems even worse in countries with the cash to sort this out. Nice to read about one guys mission to help those struggling with no place to call home.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 01, 2018, 06:39:31 PM
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 10:22:04 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 01, 2018, 06:39:31 PM
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414/

Good article. Disheartening and maddening, but well done.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 03:47:38 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages?CMP=twt_gu
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on March 02, 2018, 09:17:29 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 02, 2018, 03:47:38 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages?CMP=twt_gu

"It's a trap!"
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 05, 2018, 12:37:30 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-says-american-workers-are-hurt-by-immigration-but-after-ice-raided-this-texas-town-they-never-showed-up/2018/03/04/8ce16362-1d65-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 11:42:58 AM
The teenagers running for Governor of Kansas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/six-teenagers-are-running-for-governor-in-kansas-and-suddenly-this-doesnt-seem-so-preposterous/2018/03/02/e70495de-11b8-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.90b5a576bbf4
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 11:55:09 AM
you gotta read it all, tough as it is... homeless in NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/nyregion/nyc-homeless-nakesha-mental-illness.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 12:08:35 PM
Beating the lottery

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2018, 02:57:03 PM
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2018, 03:22:15 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 12:08:35 PM
Beating the lottery

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/


This is a great read.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Emeraldlis on March 06, 2018, 04:36:11 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 11:55:09 AM
you gotta read it all, tough as it is... homeless in NYC

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/nyregion/nyc-homeless-nakesha-mental-illness.html

A great read that had me welling up at times  :'(  it just goes to show how complicated the reasons are for homelessness , and that it's not an easy area to help out another person . I think these sentences in this article showed how unreachable she was ,"she somehow managed to hold on to all of us , but she wouldn't let us hold on to her."  :'(  Thankgoodness people kept trying to help her and reach her , and even though they never got her off the streets before she died , all of that kindness must have definitely given her a better quality of life than she would have had , if all of those people had just ignored her .

Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2018, 02:57:03 PM
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs/

Animal cruelty is really upsetting  :'( That was a good article ,but difficult to read :(
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 07, 2018, 06:58:54 AM
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/opinion/guns-mental-health-baker-act.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 07, 2018, 02:34:07 PM
The obsessive rituals of Ichiro Suzuki

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 11, 2018, 08:57:41 AM
the man who (intentionally) knew too little

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-too-little.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on March 11, 2018, 09:15:59 AM
I saw that yesterday.

TBH, I actually envy the guy. I wish I could turn off the outside world just like that.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 12, 2018, 07:37:15 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/03/11/feature/a-beloved-restaurant-owner-was-deported-a-community-was-in-uproar-then-it-moved-on/?utm_term=.3c38f7a20e97
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 13, 2018, 09:41:48 AM
all those one-and-done's that didn't stick in the NBA

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/3/13/17112560/kentucky-wildcats-fringes-john-calipari
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 15, 2018, 09:23:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/magazine/how-a-ransom-for-royal-falconers-reshaped-the-middle-east.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 22, 2018, 08:22:35 AM
Yahoo! was first...  and it didn't matter

https://medium.com/fast-company/the-glory-that-was-yahoo-587a1fab0665
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 23, 2018, 03:35:27 PM
The Blogs of War

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iraq-war-military-bloggers_us_5ab1543ee4b008c9e5f2089c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2018, 10:24:30 AM
Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan

https://taskandpurpose.com/burn-pits-iraq-afghanistan/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 04, 2018, 01:37:29 PM
baseball washout becomes football star

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768162-how-hayden-hurst-went-from-baseball-flameout-to-potential-1st-round-nfl-pick
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 09, 2018, 01:13:39 PM
https://taskandpurpose.com/didnt-kill-death-lance-corporal-brian-easley/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 09, 2018, 07:38:16 PM
Kid rolls over on MS13 members.
So we arrest him, and threaten to deport him back to where he's marked for death for rolling on them, b/c he's here illegally

https://features.propublica.org/ms-13/a-betrayal-ms13-gang-police-fbi-ice-deportation/

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 09, 2018, 09:33:38 PM
How ISIS ran their country

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/04/world/middleeast/isis-documents-mosul-iraq.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2018, 06:38:51 AM
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/left-behind/556844/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 16, 2018, 10:35:34 PM
the author of this one passed away last week

I remember reading it in the magazine when it came out and loved it

https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/09/04/name-wall-si-60-william-nack-bob-kalsu
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 16, 2018, 10:45:34 PM
but gawd help you if you ask those $50k/month pensions to give something back...  "but I earned it!" is the inevitable scream, and the selfishness that prevents anyone from a follow-on generation of having a chance at earning anything themselves, either.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/business/pension-finance-oregon.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 17, 2018, 07:04:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-francisco-earthquake-seismic-gamble.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2018, 10:48:21 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-men/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 19, 2018, 07:59:42 PM
don't burn out your developers

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 19, 2018, 08:48:56 PM
https://theathletic.com/319441/2018/04/19/wash-it-all-away-the-life-and-legacy-of-former-nhl-player-david-gove/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 21, 2018, 07:00:02 PM
very probably, the most words ever written in a single article about Sandler's movie career.  The article is also probably better than the career (especially if you leave out Spanglish)

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/4/21/17264174/adam-sandler-the-week-of-netflix-chris-rock
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2018, 07:02:04 PM
Hard to imagine Billy Madison was 23 years ago.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bbmike on April 21, 2018, 07:08:50 PM
Adam Sandler.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2Fvomit.gif&hash=f8c0cec79f834c3558ced52ccf681c80fdf7c2e4)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2018, 07:15:29 PM
I'm with Vomit Guy.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 21, 2018, 07:19:40 PM
3 Sandler flicks I enjoy: Spanglish, Wedding Singer, and Punch Drunk Love.  That's pretty much it.  I enjoyed Billy Madison when it first came out, but then when I saw it again I realized how bad it was.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2018, 07:21:59 PM
I did like Punch Drunk Love and 50 First Dates was okay.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bbmike on April 21, 2018, 08:59:13 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2Fvomit.gif&hash=f8c0cec79f834c3558ced52ccf681c80fdf7c2e4)
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on April 23, 2018, 09:35:20 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/23/business/energy-environment/big-windmills.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 25, 2018, 11:44:03 AM
DNA convicted the wrong guy

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 25, 2018, 11:48:36 AM
The start of FaceBook

https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/first-profile-facebook.php
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 25, 2018, 12:28:53 PM
Jake Locker walked away from football

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/04/18/jake-locker-nfl-2011-draft-tennessee-titans-why-he-quit

QuoteBut not Hasselbeck. "Look," he says. "Every coach I ever played for says these are the priorities: faith, family, football. But no one really lives that way. No one. Jake didn't retire. He put family and faith first. This is the way I judge people now: If you don't like Jake Locker, I don't think I can like you."
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 01, 2018, 01:40:56 PM
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-high-school-impostor
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 04, 2018, 09:06:24 AM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/america-s-elderly-are-losing-37-billion-a-year-to-fraud
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 05, 2018, 06:08:20 AM
Erik Prince goes to China

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/05/04/feature/a-warrior-goes-to-china-did-erik-prince-cross-a-line/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Staggerwing on May 05, 2018, 06:53:50 AM
Sounds like Prince resents the gov't more than he loves his country so he's gone over to the Chinese.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: trailrunner on May 05, 2018, 06:16:16 PM
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-doting-father-who-robbed-armored-cars/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 07, 2018, 12:31:12 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/business/michael-cohen-lawyer-trump.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 12:37:16 PM
^read that yesterday. Interesting piece.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 12:37:53 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/world/americas/aids-venezuela-indigenous-people-threatened.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 08, 2018, 03:30:25 PM
Good read here

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on May 08, 2018, 03:31:12 PM
^saw that earlier. Interesting piece.
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 08, 2018, 04:09:35 PM
Hacking the Xbox...  and getting arrested

https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-underground-videogame-hackers/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 08, 2018, 04:10:03 PM
the robot cleanup of Fukushima

https://www.wired.com/story/fukushima-robot-cleanup/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2018, 02:35:22 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 08, 2018, 03:30:25 PM
Good read here

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

a follow-up
http://alicedreger.com/IDW
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 12, 2018, 05:14:01 PM
HOF pitcher Jim Palmer's real parents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/hall-of-fame-pitcher-jim-palmer-long-wondered-if-hes-related-to-jfk-at-72-he-learned-the-truth/2018/05/10/2e057d32-4e1c-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html
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Post by: mirth on May 16, 2018, 11:53:46 AM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-smallvilles-allison-mack-went-actress-sex-cult-slaver-1112107
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2018, 04:57:20 PM
wow

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/10/style/sexual-consent-college-campus.html
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 17, 2018, 03:09:09 PM
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-lesson-of-eric-greitens-and-the-navy-seals-who-tried-to-warn-us
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 17, 2018, 03:30:28 PM
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2018, 08:42:46 AM
The quest for the royalties from Aqualung
https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro-tull-aqualung-cover-artist-burton-silverman?zd=3&zi=vjbac3on
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2018, 09:03:38 AM
The Fortnight Theory of the Universe

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/i-played-fortnite-and-figured-out-the-universe/559940/
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 21, 2018, 06:07:44 AM
Another place to visit

https://www.ourstate.com/the-unpainted-aristocracy/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 22, 2018, 08:30:53 AM
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/21/how-to-steal-an-election-in-broad-daylight/
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Post by: airboy on May 22, 2018, 12:35:39 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2018, 08:42:46 AM
The quest for the royalties from Aqualung
https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro-tull-aqualung-cover-artist-burton-silverman?zd=3&zi=vjbac3on

The guy sold the artwork and the rights to it.  Now he is whining.  Really?
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Post by: JasonPratt on May 23, 2018, 06:26:00 PM
https://story.californiasunday.com/las-vegas-shooting

Don't expect much about theories; this isn't that kind of article.
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Post by: JasonPratt on May 24, 2018, 08:42:09 PM
A prose recreation of the private video record (unseen publicly) of Tim Samaras and his crew trying to place sensors ahead of the El Reno supertornado (the largest on record to date, and second fastest clocked windspeeds on Earth).

https://lithub.com/chasing-an-impossible-storm/

Be aware, it gets harrowing.
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Post by: JasonPratt on May 24, 2018, 08:59:55 PM
Here's the biography that article was a chapter from:

http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Man-Who-Caught-the-Storm/Brantley-Hargrove/9781476796093
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 29, 2018, 08:31:58 AM
FERPA, colleges, and students in distress

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/us/college-student-suicide-hamilton.html

Quote"There is an ethos of maintaining privacy and confidentiality — which sometimes is very beneficial," Mr. Sokolow said. "But when somebody's dead, do you wish you'd worked to maintain their privacy, or do you wish you'd worked to keep them alive?"
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Post by: bayonetbrant on May 31, 2018, 10:13:09 AM
going back to jail because he was released "too early" - not really what you think

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/he-heads-back-prison-nashville-man-says-goodbye-new-life-he-hoped-build#stream/0

Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 31, 2018, 10:22:04 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/reader-center/racial-stereotypes.html

the one about the car seat in Toys R Us is pretty touching
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Post by: mirth on June 01, 2018, 07:25:40 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/magazine/sex-cult-empowerment-nxivm-keith-raniere.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 03, 2018, 09:49:27 AM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 04, 2018, 06:29:47 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/imperfect-answers-a-son-killed-in-action/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5c87ba43b7d2
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 04, 2018, 06:36:10 AM
"Rising Son"

https://theathletic.com/378737/2018/06/04/cole-anthony-rising-son-has-stepped-to-the-head-of-his-class/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 04, 2018, 01:08:08 PM
Trash in NYC

https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitation-salvage-accidents-new-york-city-commercial-carting-garbage/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 06, 2018, 08:34:53 AM
https://read.amazon.com/kp/kshare?asin=B01GI6S7EK&id=_OpP5vbsS5ave8PtD1wH0g&reshareId=KJR5XJMMK3QW0Y37BACN&reshareChannel=system
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Post by: mirth on June 10, 2018, 11:40:29 AM
Not particularly long, but a good read

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 11, 2018, 07:39:45 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/suicide-is-desperate-it-is-hostile-it-is-tragic-but-mostly-it-is-a-bloody-mess/2018/06/08/ecf66aee-6b54-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d24fd2feace0
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 11, 2018, 12:20:48 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 12, 2018, 07:15:04 AM
so this hits pretty close to home for me right now, and I suspect for at least a few of y'all

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2018, 07:19:38 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 12, 2018, 07:15:04 AM
so this hits pretty close to home for me right now, and I suspect for at least a few of y'all

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom

ha! lotta truth there.
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Post by: mirth on June 13, 2018, 05:20:57 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/veterans-ptsd-drone-warrior-wounds.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2018, 11:57:35 AM
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/15/why-are-there-so-many-damn-ubers/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 20, 2018, 08:51:36 AM
Vice Media's business model
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 20, 2018, 08:53:57 AM
Investigating FIFA

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/world-cup-soccer-fifa-corruption-investigation?utm_term=.ss82VZRoBp#.ei1M9Yq2Nz
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 21, 2018, 09:03:46 AM
cyberwar on the offensive

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/cyber-command-trump.html
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 25, 2018, 05:25:57 AM
when the school thinks your kid could be the next school shooter

https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/06/75f0f464cb3367/targeted_a_family_and_the_ques.html
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 25, 2018, 11:05:08 AM
City of Exiles

https://story.californiasunday.com/tijuana-city-of-exiles
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 25, 2018, 11:15:32 AM
Dying to save Right Whales?

https://thedeepmag.ca/joeandthewhale/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 10, 2018, 12:02:00 PM
https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/07/09/astroball-houston-astros-book-excerpt
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 13, 2018, 06:11:24 AM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/10/3-versions-of-europe-are-collapsing-at-the-same-time/
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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 16, 2018, 04:36:40 PM
The Cash Me Outside girl is now a rap star

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/magazine/the-big-business-of-becoming-bhad-bhabie.html
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Post by: Steelgrave on July 16, 2018, 05:16:43 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 16, 2018, 04:36:40 PM
The Cash Me Outside girl is now a rap star

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/magazine/the-big-business-of-becoming-bhad-bhabie.html

Sigh....things like this make me fear for our civilization......
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 23, 2018, 10:53:38 AM
Portugal says "FU" to credit regulators and goes on a boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/business/portugal-economy-austerity.html

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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 23, 2018, 10:53:59 AM
Quote from: Steelgrave on July 16, 2018, 05:16:43 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 16, 2018, 04:36:40 PM
The Cash Me Outside girl is now a rap star

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/magazine/the-big-business-of-becoming-bhad-bhabie.html

Sigh....things like this make me fear for our civilization......

the genius is in the marketing guy, not the idiot he's promoting
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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 25, 2018, 04:11:19 PM
a good news story we could all use

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/24182944/where-braves-legend-dale-murphy-now
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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 30, 2018, 11:42:57 AM
MD, this is right in your neck of the woods

https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your-life-1827546385
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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 30, 2018, 12:18:25 PM
I don't know that I normally would've given an article like this a second thought if it hadn't come recommended, but it turned out to be pretty fascinating

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/jeff-henry-verruckt-schlitterbahns-tragic-slide/?src=longreads

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Post by: mirth on August 02, 2018, 04:35:25 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: Steelgrave on August 02, 2018, 04:49:34 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2018, 04:35:25 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions

This one blew my mind. Wow. No wonder I never won the 1 mil!
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 03, 2018, 10:23:29 AM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/death-20th-century-fox-a-eulogy-a-hollywood-studio-1131094
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 12:34:06 PM
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-valley-spies-china-russia-219071
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: mirth on August 06, 2018, 12:51:06 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230

good find
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 01:05:02 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 06, 2018, 12:51:06 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230

good find

there's even more to the story that I heard from Sec. Card on a trip to DC in 2003.  It was a fascinating and ridiculous story all in one.
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Post by: bayonetbrant on August 13, 2018, 06:40:49 AM
https://longreads.com/2018/08/06/weird-in-the-daylight/

The story of Sadlack's and the live music scene around it

The story focuses on the late-90s alt-country scene, but he late-80s/early-90s hard rock scene was just as vibrant
Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 20, 2018, 12:54:43 PM
not a good look for Facebook

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/


Title: Re: Running thread: Quality Long-form Journalism
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 31, 2018, 06:12:59 AM
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/food-deserts-washington-dc/
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Post by: Staggerwing on August 31, 2018, 05:58:28 PM
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/
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Post by: trailrunner on September 28, 2018, 03:56:23 PM
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-cartel-next-door/