Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Did You Read __________? / News Did you read about George Zimmerman, Syria, and Jane Austen?
Posted By Reader staff on 07.10.13 at 11:12 AM
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- AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green
- George Zimmerman yesterday
Hey, did you read:
• About a bigger threat to democracy "than the N.S.A., the C.I.A., and the I.R.S. put together"? —Steve Bogira
• That not only has government surveillance expanded, but taxpayers are footing the bill while communications companies make more money? —Mick Dumke
• Jelani Cobb's latest dispatch from the George Zimmerman trial? —Sam Worley
• Or Jacob Sullum on why Zimmerman should be acquitted? —Steve Bogira
• About how you can earn a whopping $70 a story (and no insurance) reporting from the front lines in Syria? —Aimee Levitt
• That a federal judge has found Apple guilty of price-fixing e-books? (This New Yorker piece by Ken Auletta laid out the background to the case—and Amazon's role in it—last year.) —Kate Schmidt
• About the retreat of the New York Mets from the Native American Heritage Day they'd scheduled for a game with the tomahawk-chopping Atlanta Braves? —Steve Bogira
• Lee Bey on an urban palimpsest? —Tony Adler
• Geoffrey O'Brien on John Ford's The Searchers and the real-life story that inspired it? —Tal Rosenberg
• About Camp Jane Austen? —Aimee Levitt
• Righteous Jim DeRogatis on that crappy interview with "Chicago's music-loving mayor"? —Sam Worley
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