I’ve feared that for a year now that doing the Twitter thing would be the tipping point for me—one that would push the information overload into get-me-out-of-here territory.
So if I disappear in the next couple of weeks, check Bellevue (or whatever the equivalent is in DC) or that abandoned shack in Montana.
I am now on Twitter.
Add it to my four newspaper subscriptions (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post—five if you count Barron’s!), dozen magazines, myriad RSS, CJR online stuff, blogs, email, friends’ websites, Gchat, Facebook, LinkedIn, CNBC—and that bookcase of unread titles that stares me down every day. Good Lord.
So, if I start acting like Fox resident nut (and that’s saying something!) Glenn Beck— talking with religious fervor, blubbering repeatedly on national TV, wetting my bed over the “Calcutta”-like future our major cities face due to Obamanomics—get me a straitjacket.
Or at least send me to Shepard Smith.
How can you deprive yourself of The Economist?
#1 Posted by Chris Corliss, CJR on Wed 18 Mar 2009 at 04:23 PM
You sound like a self involved fool. We (Obama speak) would cut you some slack if you had anything in your bag of bovine excrement other than NYT, WP, CNBC, ad nauseum. Get some experience and we'll talk again if you can tear yourself away from your mother's twitter.
#2 Posted by paul, CJR on Wed 18 Mar 2009 at 05:25 PM
Chris: I let The Economist lapse a few months ago, but I still read it when I can.
To Paul: Thanks!
#3 Posted by Ryan Chittum, CJR on Wed 18 Mar 2009 at 06:03 PM