Elizabeth Toohey (Ph.D)
@elizabethtoohey.bsky.social
reader/reviewer of all things 21st c., Harvard Nieman fellow, CUNY prof.
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April 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Happy Independent Bookstore day #indiebookstoreday #independentbookstore
A convo for my own student journalists to have…
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Journalism Advisory Organizations Issue Rare Alert to Student News Outlets - Nieman Reports
Student media advisors modify long-standing advice in the wake of ‘unprecedented’ threats to student speech
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April 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A convo for my own student journalists to have…
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niemanreports.org/student-jour...
T’was great to review this latest novel by Ben Okri for @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-R...
One night to resolve all matters of the heart
Ben Okri emphasizes abstract ideas over nuanced characters in the farce “Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted.”
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March 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
T’was great to review this latest novel by Ben Okri for @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-R...
Reposted by Elizabeth Toohey (Ph.D)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
I once saw John Hodgman at a cafe and told him I binge-read his columns to cheer myself up when I’m depressed and then almost started crying. He was very nice about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/m...
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Judge John Hodgman on Proper Lego-Sorting
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I once saw John Hodgman at a cafe and told him I binge-read his columns to cheer myself up when I’m depressed and then almost started crying. He was very nice about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/m...
Reposted by Elizabeth Toohey (Ph.D)
The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 13, 2024 at 5:01 AM
The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.