Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it:
You may live a long time and never see anything this delighting. (Jarett Wieselman)
I wish Sophia Coppola would buy the rights to this story about Brittney Griner’s Olympics. (Candace Buckner)
Wow. When they talk about what it was like covering Kamala Harris as district attorney and then as attorney general, California journalists are consistent. (CJR)
h/t to my brother Zac for turning me onto Baxter Dury.
You know how the Olympics seemed everywhere however you wanted it? NBC’s innovation was a viewer-centric, screen-agnostic experience. (Wired)
I did not know that Animal loves bunnies. (Muppet History)
There are probably more relatives of Jimmie Dale Gilmore subscribing to this newsletter than perhaps any other newsletter, and I’m sure they have all already listened to this charmingly digressive conversation with Marc Maron.
This essay about the deservedly if regrettable waning importance of the news media has merit. (The Editorial Board)
How untrusted are journalists these days? People don’t trust journalists when they debunk lies. (Nieman Lab)
Donald Trump lied 162 times in his press conference last week—more than twice a minute!—and NPR fact-checked ‘em all. (NPR)
You had me at “the toxic euphemism treadmill and hyperbolic academic Marxism gobbledygook that the far left imposed on liberals.” (Not a Good Jewish Girl)
Hey, wanna empathize with Trump? h/t Frank Spring (Tom Scocca)
Saw this on an airplane, which I will submit is Champions truest and most favorable venue.
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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House.