Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
My weekly collection of new and notable books for your pop culture pleasure and edification: #ReadMoreTweetLess.
Think NPR's Fresh Air meets Kevin Smith: My Summer Lair with host Sammy Younan: interviews & impressions on Pop Culture.
Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
My weekly collection of new and notable books for your pop culture pleasure and edification: #ReadMoreTweetLess.
One of my favourite journalists Matt Taibbi finally articulated a core concept I’ve been circling but haven’t fully been able to express. He’s writing about journalism…in newspapers and on tv and he says in his book Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another (on page 137): ““We (we as in journalists) are not informing…
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks NBA & creativity with Ivan Cash “an interactive creative director whose conceptually-based, multidisciplinary work celebrates human connection.”
Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
I can’t remember how Portland’s XOXO Festival came into my life…it’s only a couple of years old. Maybe twitter? I wanna go one year…SXSW in many ways has jumped the shark. And we don’t have anything like this in Toronto (maybe start one? Complain or Create can’t do both…). The conference feels like Portland, s’what I’d expect that city to be like: bit like Seattle with more Nike.
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