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Fred Vogelstein
@fvogelstein
Contrib. Editor @Wired, Author of "Dogfight: How Apple and Google went to war ....." , ex @FortuneMagazine, @USNews, @WSJ. I’m on Signal. fvogelstein@gmail.com
Nov 4, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
A transcript from edited video of former President Obama's remarks today or yesterday on Gaza conflict.
"If there is any chance of us being able to act constructively to do something, it will require an admission of complexity and maintaining (in our minds) what on the surface may seem like contradictory ideas. That what Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation and what is happening to Palestinians is unbearable.
Jan 11, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1/This is excellent. Don’t agree with all of it esp. the parts that lump adv-driven tv/radio in with now subsc driven print. But this is perfect: “On all sides, we now lean into inflammatory caricatures, because the financial incentives encourage it.” taibbi.substack.com/p/we-need-a-ne… 2/There are many things that need rethinking in the way politics and life work in the US. One of them is our obsession with celebrity and our willingness to pay millions to people who can command an audience.