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The Connection Newsletter 42 - Equal billing
The Connection Newsletter 42 - Equal billing
Hello!
This is edition #42 of
The Connection
, the weekly email I send family, friends, and future friends (hi!) Glad you're here.
For those that celebrate, happy lunar new year! I learned yesterday that technically I was supposed to be giving out red envelopes ever since I got married, but the responsibility has really settled in now that I have a child. Unfortunately, there was no red envelope emoji to add to my Venmo sends so I settled for 💥🍾
Speaking of celebrations: Happy birthday to my brother, Alex! 🎁🎂
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. This was a terrific story. Can’t wait for the movie.
“The teller leaned in and read the message. Tense, she stared into Tom’s dark sunglasses. He slid his white plastic bag across the counter, and she loaded it up with cash.Tom strode
outside,
bag in hand. His heartbeat surged. His legs tingled. He looked at his wristwatch. The whole exchange had lasted 45 seconds. Two minutes later, Tom was beside his bike, feverishly stripping down. He placed his disguise and the plastic bag onto a square piece of black satin and tied the corners to create a little bundle, which he shoved into his messenger bag.After bunny-hopping gracefully into the street, Tom casually cycled back to his parents’ circular driveway. Next door lived Pat and Denise Carey, who had moved in the previous spring. The 47-year-old Pat was a meticulous mower, changing directions each week for a more uniform cut. He was also Libertyville’s chief of police.”
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. I didn’t know what to expect from this profile of Hope Hicks, former White House Communications Director, or what I wanted to hear. But it seemed… fair.
“After her departure, Hicks decamped to Greenwich to recuperate with her family. For a while, things had been tense in the Hicks house as her parents worried about her punishing hours, physical safety, and mounting negative publicity. Initially, it wasn’t easy to transition from the fast-twitch, Trump-staffer lifestyle. “You’re used to your phone ringing every 10 seconds,” a former White House colleague told me, explaining the phenomenon, “and you start to take your phone out of your pocket to check your e-mail, and you say to yourself, Oh, I didn’t get an e-mail. And then you check 10 seconds later and, again, you say, Oh, I didn’t get an e-mail.” She made time for old friends, ran outside without fear of having both phones in front of her, took some weekend trips out of town.”
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Looking forward to Jordan Peele’s take on Lorena Bobbitt’s story, and perhaps it’s a signal that while the arc of the moral universe is long, it does indeed bend toward justice (ht/ Martin Luther King Jr., obvi).
“It just so happened that at the same time, a wave of movies, documentaries
and
podcasts (“I, Tonya,” “The Clinton Affair,” “Slow Burn”) had shined new light on other women engulfed in scandals in the 1990s. Lorena identified with Tonya Harding and Monica Lewinsky. “We were vilified by the media, vilified and that is so sad. It happens to women,” she said. Maybe, she figured, her story could finally get equal billing to John’s penis.”
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. Guess which state streamed Sex In The City a lot? Or Breaking Bad? Really interesting to see this map.
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. Ben Thompson’s breakdown on what media companies can learn from Buzzfeed.
“What is clear, though, is that the only way to build a thriving business in a space dominated by an Aggregator is to go around them, not to work with them. In the case of publishers, that means subscriptions, or finding ways to monetize, like the Ringer, beyond text. For web properties it means building destination sites that are not completely reliant on Google. For manufacturers it means building relationships with retailers other than Amazon and building brands that compel customers to go elsewhere. And for digital content providers…well, this is why I view Apple’s policies as the most egregious of all.”
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