do you still read articles?

i still read articles because i am always looking for stuff to use in class. we have to rotate our reading material (for a number of reasons) and also i like to tailor readings to student interest, or stuff i know resonates with a wide swath of students.

for myself, i read many fewer articles than i used to.

If article means anything beyond a certain length (a couple of thousand words?), I'm a lot closer to "no longer" than "still." I've always got a couple of books on the go, but articles are basically dead. (The two are connected: when I do start reading something lengthy online, there's a little voice telling me I should be reading a book instead.) I'll still read a lengthy baseball piece occasionally, or a review of a film I've seen and had some kind of reaction to.

I do if they aren't paywalled, but it's some thin gruel.

xp yeah that's the thing right? I'll still take a stab at the New Yorker about half the time when it arrives but beyond that, like clicking around online, I don't have a need or desire for all this random information that people link to. I can read a book about it someday, or not.

I very much dislike when people link articles with no commentary on why they are linking or how they feel about it.

i read articles, love a long form reported article. don't read bloody garbage, guardian crap, and op eds - well i will occasionally read douthat or whatever for a laugh.

i read a shit ton of articles

Same.

i wouldn't say i read them so much as they and i co-exist in a relationship of mutual dependence that flickers rapidly as dopamine and advertising revenue complete their natural conversion cycle

I very much dislike when people link articles with no commentary on why they are linking or how they feel about it.

― Yerac, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 11:28 AM (seven minutes ago)

same

the sharing of articles via social media is very tiresome, and i have little interest in reading takes/opinions in general.

for my students, i mostly like investigative stuff and written material (or radio/audio/podcast) that clarifies a confusing issue or shines light on a misunderstood topic or gives voice to the voiceless.

read articles on the daily & find them an enjoyable way to learn about the world

I very much dislike when people link articles with no commentary on why they are linking or how they feel about it.

― Yerac, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 11:28 AM (seven minutes ago)

tbh if everyone in my social media feeds did that i would be pretty ok with it

if its not in macro form y bother

nowadays i only have the attention span for listicles and even then i usually run out of steam before the end

i don't read articles much anymore and when i do it's only ones that are linked from this site or one of my other few non-social-media online haunts

I red articles, books, poems, nutritional info.

I read articles all the time and have gotten pretty good at determining what has information and what is obvious clickbait.

what good is information though

I wrote a custom print stylesheet and print articles, that’s how much I read articles.

if reference articles e.g. wikipedia count as articles then i may need to retract my previous statement

i usually read a ton of articles every day but i do my best to avoid opinion stuff, unless it's krugman or someone i trust. especially try to avoid the garbage hot take stuff cranked out by places like slate, etc, which more and more feels like automatic writing that exists for SEO purposes.

Slate does, however, employ Mark Joseph Stern, excellent on LGBT and legal questions.

yeah, i still glance at it for certain writers -- fred kaplan is also good on a lot of stuff

dont even read definitive articles tbh

i don't read any articles but i love sharing them on social media to make my friends irate

For those of you that do read a lot of articles, what are your favorite sites? I really could use a few more good ones.

ive started to read the new yorkers piling up in my apt (my mom split a subscrip with me this winter so she could get the tote bag) the last week or two, which id mostly neglected until now, and it’s the most articles ive consistently read in a while. reading about two every three days. i definitely have issues with the style, content and arguments of a lot of the pieces (ive always had trouble with literary essays’ tendecy of detouring into biographical or aesthetic ephemera (‘she was wearing grey pants’) just as they were getting into the nitty gritty of a contentious argument) but it’s been nice to just read about a diverse set of topics i don’t have any particular prior interest in. idk, im depressed rn and twitter/my phone makes me feel ill so im trying it out

I just go around and browse Wikipedia articles. Particularly whatever happened on that day in history. Carl Reinicke's birth anniversary was a couple days ago so I've been listening to a lot of his stuff.

I mess with Longform.org a decent amount.

This is including everything from newspaper articles to academic journal articles? Yes, all the time.

to encyclopaedia articles etc?

i appreciate the morning news' daily headlines, e.g. https://themorningnews.org/post/tuesday-headlines-sure-youre-busier

I read tons of articles because they serve an important purpose in making sentences meaningful and comprehensible. How do you even get by in English without a/an and the?

the same way the russians do

I don’t have a custom style sheet for them like caek does though

also this thread is nearly 24 hours in and it has just occurred to me to make a shit joke about looking at titty pics

truly print is dead

When I was a little girl, I had it drilled into my head that my ancestors were told they were illiterate and couldn't amount to anything. So we read everything: all the local newspapers, all of the opinions. At this late date, I'm not going to assimilate into a culture where we can't be bothered to find stuff on the web. In fact, I'm thinking of springing for a subscription to newspapers.com so I can have every article ever.

I read a lot of articles instead of book length non-fiction. Lots of good stuff around, especially easy to find via twitter

read the hell of of some articles. fuck yes articles

Anthropocene, deep fakes, Kashmir, Patricia Lockwood's cat. Fuck yeah baby!

i read tweets

one of the very few useful things about Twitter is that it's how I find out about interesting articles. if more people used it to share interesting things to read rather than as a place to conduct internecine feuds, it would be a much less awful place.

You can just follow editors and sub-editors of publications you like? The few I follow will usually just tweet the articles their section has been working on

oh, youvve read a few academic papers on the matter? cute. i have read over 100000 posts.

— wint (@dril) October 3, 2015

tbh i still get much of my news from reading articles in the newspaper in the morning like a fckng n00b

i read a lot of articles but there is a significantly higher ratio of horrible to good these days, at least in my experience

part of the reason i unfollowed everyone on facebook was so i didn't have to get mad every time i encountered a horrible article that someone was either sharing in earnest or to indicate how horrible it was

needless to say, twitter was and is not a source of good articles for me lol

also links receive relatively low engagement so i think y'all occupy a niche

I'm constantly pushing articles to me e-reader. I really only read about half of what I plan on reading, but that still amounts to a lot of stuff. I have a harder time reading long articles on a computer or phone screen.

Usually I just find the articles on longform or follow links from here or other social networks

I only read the Internet for the articles

I open a lot of tabs of articles, does that count?

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Now more than ever I don’t want to read articles