Amy Argetsinger
@amyargetsinger.bsky.social
Editor and occasional writer on the features staff of The Washington Post, author of “There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America” (S&S, 2021)
... Is that they are great actors *because* they are great listeners. They are unusually present in the moment, observant, taking in all the stimuli around them. This level of focus and absorption allows them to act and react naturally. Not coincidentally, it makes them extraordinarily charming.
September 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
... Is that they are great actors *because* they are great listeners. They are unusually present in the moment, observant, taking in all the stimuli around them. This level of focus and absorption allows them to act and react naturally. Not coincidentally, it makes them extraordinarily charming.
Please don’t tell me I have to actually see the movie if I want to continue alluding to it in learned fashion.
August 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Please don’t tell me I have to actually see the movie if I want to continue alluding to it in learned fashion.
It only got 75 shares!
August 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It only got 75 shares!
Do one this summer and the other next summer?
July 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Do one this summer and the other next summer?
Nice choice to have to consider. Which country?
July 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nice choice to have to consider. Which country?
"Lovely irony that Washington — a city full of swaggering mercenaries, political theater kids, walking LinkedIn profiles — becomes, for three months out of the year, an open-air sauna that is liable to transform them, under a full sun, into a pack of sweat werewolves."
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Lovely irony that Washington — a city full of swaggering mercenaries, political theater kids, walking LinkedIn profiles — becomes, for three months out of the year, an open-air sauna that is liable to transform them, under a full sun, into a pack of sweat werewolves."
Oh no, I'm about to do the thing where I feel helplessly compelled to post literally every other line of a Judkis take.
Must resist. But here's one more, okay?....
Must resist. But here's one more, okay?....
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh no, I'm about to do the thing where I feel helplessly compelled to post literally every other line of a Judkis take.
Must resist. But here's one more, okay?....
Must resist. But here's one more, okay?....
True. It's still an industry that needs to pay its employees, so we're all in favor of readers clicking on the headlines that our reporting created -- ad impressions and all.
June 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
True. It's still an industry that needs to pay its employees, so we're all in favor of readers clicking on the headlines that our reporting created -- ad impressions and all.
I’m with you on the unfortunate rise of clickbait. But I define it as headlines that manipulate you into a click that wasn’t worth your time. But jaded readers might have skipped over a quieter headline. Why not lean into the emotional aspects of an important story if it encourages them to tune in?
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I’m with you on the unfortunate rise of clickbait. But I define it as headlines that manipulate you into a click that wasn’t worth your time. But jaded readers might have skipped over a quieter headline. Why not lean into the emotional aspects of an important story if it encourages them to tune in?
The point of a headline is to encourage people to read the story. Often, that lies in highlighting certain potent details over other, perhaps just-as-relevant details. A headline doesn’t have to reflect every aspect of a story. That is what the story is for.
June 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The point of a headline is to encourage people to read the story. Often, that lies in highlighting certain potent details over other, perhaps just-as-relevant details. A headline doesn’t have to reflect every aspect of a story. That is what the story is for.