i had the opportunity to meet arianna yesterday (and i very embarrassingly did NOT have a card to give her when she asked me for one! note to self, get this DONE). she was keynote speaker at a conference for media buyers.
note about the beginning of this talk: just before arianna took the stage, yahoo played a very entertaining video about the internet that featured several children, one of whom said she want to be a “mermaid fairy” when she grew up. arianna incorporated several mermaid fairy references into her talk.
she pulled no punches, speaking about everything from sarah palin to 9/11 to arthur schlesinger (who, she says, with his accent “made incomprehensibility acceptable” — she’s very funny, and her accent is not THAT bad).
i love what she says about accountability in journalism. if something is said that isn’t true, we are obligated to mention that when writing about it. if two people are debating, for example, whether or not the earth is flat, it is incumbent on the writer to note that the earth is not, in fact, flat. she incorporates this thinking into debates over such things as creationism and global warming.
the talk is about thirty minutes long; i posted it in four separate videos on youtube. you can find them individually on my channel if you prefer. if you’d like to listen to the talk straight through, you can watch the playlist below.
would love to hear what all of you think about this talk. as for me, i liked and respected arianna quite a bit before — i think i’m in love with her now!
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