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In defense of Listicles/Buzzfeedy things
Brought to you by that cheeky chap from the pbs ideas thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obEkLDHXV8E&feature=player_embedded
- Our brains thirst for knowledge and little bursts of easily digestable information is an easy way to get a nice fix of dopamine, so that's good right?
- give us focused, annotated tables of contents. They've been around in basically offline form since at least the 19th century and are probably needed now more than ever
- They're not inherently shallow or destroying journalism, that's a problem with writers and editors, not the form