Long and mid-for journalism worth reading
This magazine is a must read for anyone seeking solid journalism, fact-checked, probing, insightful and often entertaining.
Balanced perspectives Harvard cuts
Budget cuts are typical in recessionary type economies, particularly in public education. This article gets at the root of the issue, which is not a contradiction of eliminating bloated departments, rather protecting the fundamental of a literate society.
Good Journalism. Bad App
Love the journalism but unfortunately the latest app update of The Atlantic is pretty terrible. It zaps my battery, moves around the article when the advertisements reload and scrolls slowly with glitchy movement.
Please declutter the app and focus on readability and function. (Also, the animation of spinning wheel when pages load looks terrible)
Please declutter the app and focus on readability and function. (Also, the animation of spinning wheel when pages load looks terrible)
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Catchy headlines
But not always more information in the text. Also a frustrating search process. Catchy promotions in ads that turn up in Reddit and other feeds, don’t match the article titles enough for the search function to find them. It’s a
Headache.
Headache.
Writing is Very Good - Politics are Lopsided
While I am not a fan of the current administration and their policies, the Atlantic overwhelms the reader with anti-Trump stories. You have to dig deep to get to stories that touch on everyday American lives. When you find them, they are very well written. The level of human interest goes far beyond a couple of anecdotal stories of “victims” and tells the nuanced complex backgrounds that make issues complicated. Those stories provide the reader with another perspective. Those stories make the reader stop and think after committing the time to read long form journalism. I just wish there were more of them.
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