[Magdalen] Washington Post article on involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill

Lynn Ronkainen houstonklr at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 20:20:32 UTC 2015


Scott k> Someone made me laugh some years ago when he wrote about canceling 
his
> New Yorker subscription because he could no longer make himself plow
> through "11,000 words on the Cuban agricultural industry." But there's
> something to the idea of letting a very well-written and well-edited
> publication set one's reading agenda to some extent. So much media
> content now is based on individual choice and preference, but it's
> mind-expanding at least some of the time to submit to what some
> respected experts believe we should know about; that's what draws me
> to the New York Times quite often. They've got fantastically
> well-educated and well-informed people working in the midst of places
> where the news is being made...I'd like to know what they consider
> important and not base all my media consumption on the tired
> preferences I fall back on.



Well said!
Lynn

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