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Opinion: Your Artsy Wildfire Instagram Posts Are Trivializing a Tragedy—and Retraumatizing Evacuees

We’ve all seen them by now. The orange skies. The quirky captions. Maybe even a thoughtful pose. Wildfire photos have started to feel inescapable on Instagram. In this moment of extraordinary tragedy, amateur photographers are scrambling to take over hashtags and gain followers. And it pisses me off.

Portland Man Gets Paid to Broadcast His Opinions Around the Country

The Columbia Journalism Review this week highlighted an entrepreneurial Portlander who’s picking up the slack for newspapers around the country that can no longer afford to employ enough editorial writers. The CJR story begins: “Last month, an unusual disclaimer began popping up below select editorials in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ‘This editorial,’ it read, in parentheses, … Continue reading Portland Man Gets Paid to Broadcast His Opinions Around the Country

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