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Never Post

#MemeingTheNews

Aug 14, 2024
54:34

Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit Em!


Intro Links

  • Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next – MSN.com
  • Crooked Media, Producer of ‘Pod Save America,’ Reaches Deal With Union, Which Withdraws Claim Company Engaged in Union-Busting Tactics – Variety.com
  • After Walkout, Crooked Media Union Reaches Tentative Deal With ‘Pod Save America' Company – MSN.com
  • Spotify is full of AI music, and some say it’s ruining the platform – FastCo
  • Cartoon Network Website Shuts Down, Warner Bros. Discovery Kicks Visitors Over to Max – Variety.com
  • 5 Podcasts for the Constantly Online – NYT
  • XOXO 2024 Schedule!

#DeathoftheHashtag

Find Lia:

Meming the News, Newsing the Memes

Find Whitney:

Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. 

The idea, the teacher said, was that there was a chaos

left in matter – a little bit of not-yet in everything that was –


so the poets became interested in fragments, interruptions–

the little bit of saying lit by the unsaid–


was it a way to stay alive, a way to keep hope,

leaving things unfinished?


as if in completing a sentence there was death–


– Excerpt of Ars Poetica (the idea) by Dana Levin<

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