Dear Medium

I don’t like your affair with journalism

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Do you know what I don’t like about the news?

None of it matters.

And I don’t want to spend my time reading about things that don’t matter.

It’s probably a gripe with most journalists. I don’t respect people who talk to a few “experts” and think they’ve got the entire field figured out. Although, I do love people who are able to do this — most of them aren’t journalists.

If I want to read op-eds or the news, I’d head over to the National Enquirer. Or Washington Post. or New York Times.

I don’t want to come to Medium and see this.

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Or this.

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I don’t mean every feature piece. That piece above by Kate Willsky is great. It’s not clickbait. It has something important to share.

The features signal who you like, who you want and who you are.