Retrospectives on previous articles are indeed interesting.
The WSJ does some of this in its "Notable & Quotable" feature on the editorial pages.
Another way to get this experience is to get very behind in reading a publication, and experience the articles from the perspective of several months later.
Yes, you can save a lot of time and add perspective by reading the newspaper two or three months behind, or even in some cases a couple of weeks. Fun to consider how it might be done systematically in a way that didn’t render the individual reader totally clueless but also cuts through the nonsense.
At the time of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin I was several months behind reading the print version of the Jerusalem Post. As I got caught up while flying to a conference, I was struck by how much the tenor of the comments about Rabin felt like a premonition of disaster.
I drew on this eerie experience to caution a member of the Massachusetts delegation in Washington that comments comparing President Trump to a Nazi were channeling the same vibe that existed before the Rabin assassination. Those in Israel who were perceived as contributing to that atmosphere are criticized for it to this day.
Retrospectives on previous articles are indeed interesting.
The WSJ does some of this in its "Notable & Quotable" feature on the editorial pages.
Another way to get this experience is to get very behind in reading a publication, and experience the articles from the perspective of several months later.
Yes, you can save a lot of time and add perspective by reading the newspaper two or three months behind, or even in some cases a couple of weeks. Fun to consider how it might be done systematically in a way that didn’t render the individual reader totally clueless but also cuts through the nonsense.
At the time of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin I was several months behind reading the print version of the Jerusalem Post. As I got caught up while flying to a conference, I was struck by how much the tenor of the comments about Rabin felt like a premonition of disaster.
I drew on this eerie experience to caution a member of the Massachusetts delegation in Washington that comments comparing President Trump to a Nazi were channeling the same vibe that existed before the Rabin assassination. Those in Israel who were perceived as contributing to that atmosphere are criticized for it to this day.