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to listen with patience and care, and never to interrupt even when people were having great difficulty in explaining themselves, for during such halting and imprecise moments. Talese credits his mother as the role model he followed in developing the interviewing techniques that would serve him well later in life, interviewing such varied subjects as mafia members and middle-class Americans on their sexual habits. By the time Talese left for college during September 1949, he had written some 311 stories and columns for the Sentinel-Ledger. Īfter only seven sports articles, Talese was given his own column for the weekly Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger. On the mistaken assumption that relieving the athletic department of its press duties would gain me the gratitude of the coach and get me more playing time, I took the job and even embellished it by using my typing skills to compose my own account of the games rather than merely relaying the information to the newspapers by telephone. As Talese recalls in his 1996 memoir Origins of a Nonfiction Writer: The assistant coach had the duty of telephoning in the chronicle of each game to the local newspaper and when he complained he was too busy to do it properly, the head coach gave Talese the duty. Talese's entry into writing was entirely happenstance, and the unintended consequence of the then high school sophomore's attempt to gain more playing time for the baseball team. But today at least, I won’t.Nan Talese and Gay Talese at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.īorn in Ocean City, New Jersey, the son of Italian immigrant parents, Talese graduated from Ocean City High School in 1949. The platforms sharing these rewards can continue to look the other way. “They will be well rewarded for their efforts. Joe Rogan and others like him can continue to proudly encourage misinformation and bigotry to vast audiences,” Gay added. “I am not trying to impede anyone’s freedom to speak. Like Neil Young, who said leaving Spotify wasn’t an attempt to stifle Rogan’s freedom of speech, Gay said the decision to leave Spotify is not about censorship. While The Roxane Gay Agenda wasn’t exclusive to Spotify, the author acknowledged that leaving the streaming service “was a difficult decision - there are a lot of listeners on the platform, and I may never recoup that audience elsewhere.”
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Gay also questioned Spotify’s and Rogan’s “conciliatory gestures” in the aftermath of the outcry against the streaming service, including Spotify’s plan to add “content advisory” warnings on Covid-19 discussions as well as Rogan’s own apology. And misinformation has helped prolong the Covid-19 pandemic and encouraged people to do dangerous things such as injecting bleach or taking Ivermectin, a horse deworming paste.” “Misinformation has contributed to tens of millions of people believing the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. “Spotify does not exist in a vacuum, and the decisions it makes about what content it hosts have consequences,” Gay added. “Clearly, something about feigned curiosity and ignorance, and his embrace of conspiracy theorists and quacks resonates with a lot of people. Onward.” In a follow-up op-ed for the New York Times, Gay explained the decision and criticized Spotify for giving its reported 400 million users “unfettered access” to the controversial Joe Rogan Experience, which boasts an audience of 11 million people. That’s all there really is to say about that. 1, Gay tweeted, “It won’t move any sort of needle but I removed my podcast from Spotify. Roxane Gay has joined Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and other artists and podcasters in removing their content from Spotify, revealing Thursday that the author has pulled all episodes of The Roxane Gay Agenda podcast from the streaming service over their handling of “misinformation.”