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Nate Pilling is a blogger (who isn't?), a writer (why?), and a college student (maybe?). When he's not blogging, writing and colleging, Nate enjoys reading about and learning of new stuff (you and every other person on the face of the earth). Sometimes he tries to write snappy bios for himself and fails miserably. Sometimes his bios reference themselves.
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“The business of reporting and being in the media, it’s not a natural situation. … You go into it because there was something when you learned about that stuff that just gave you a little bit of a fever. And you want to give that fever to somebody else.”
YES.
Also, I love glimpses behind the curtain.
Radiolab Behind the Scenes (by Radiolab)
THIS IS WATER (by SeeTheGlossary)
Listen to the beautiful voice of my very talented friend, Lauren Kirkpatrick!
(Source: fitzandwhispers)
So what do you say after a news week like the one we had a couple weeks ago? A week when the news about a letter containing a poisonous substance that was sent to President Obama is relatively minor news. A week when a freak fertilizer plant explosion devastates a Texas town, killing 35. A week when a brutal, domestic terrorist attack is carried out in a major downtown area, killing three and injuring more than 100. A week when the men who planned those attacks are pursued throughout a metropolitan area, which forces officials to lock down that area in the midst of a massive manhunt. A week when a strong earthquake hits a Chinese city, killing 156 and injuring more than 3,000.
Still remembering to breathe? That’s right, that all happened in one week.
So what are we supposed to think about all this?
My response? I’m thankful for boring.
Boring in the sense of that sports will be about scoring goals and runs rather than having to be about the representation of a city’s unity against such evil. Boring in the sense that Reddit will be filled once again with stupid cat pictures and memes instead of citizen-detective threads accusing anyone who looks remotely similar to grainy FBI photos. Boring in the sense that Twitter will go back to discussing anything but death and injury updates.
I’d so much rather see the former in each of those cases than the latter. I wish none of those tragedies had happened, and I’d rather see such a boring news week. But in this world, that’s too much to ask for, isn’t it?
"Words are tremendously powerful things. They can, and very often do, so form conceptions in people’s minds that they are affected in their thinking as well as their behavior. Let godless words go out and prevail, and the people will become godless in their behavior. Let godly words go out in sufficient volume and prevail, and the people will reflect a standard in their behavior. This is one great reason why I am so filled with the desire to see mature and truly committed Christians obtain much great degrees of influence and of editorial decision-power in the mass media, particularly in daily newspapers. We have let the wrong side run that potent machinery of public persuasion far too long! We are paying a price throughout our society for it."
John McCandlish Phillips [via]
Great interview with Christian storyteller Laura Water Hinson - New Christian Voices Series: Laura Waters Hinson (by WORLDMagMedia)
John Krasinski (of The Office fame) tells the story of one of the most frightening moments of his life. He’s pretty funny, yo.
(Source: youtube.com)
