Sometimes I just have to say, “what the fuck?” and the royal we doesn’t work as well. These are my thoughts—raronauer

Earlier today, my former coworker and current Brijit managing editor Bryan Keefer defended his site, claiming that it’s not for the pretentious and lazy.

Instead, he argued, the site is for the curious but overworked. It’s for people who do want to read lengthy Atlantic articles, but don’t have time to waste on the bad ones.

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Yesterday, I wrote a post claiming that sites like Brijit miss the point of great journalism. Bryan Keefer, Brijit’s managing editor and my former coworker, wanted a chance to respond. Below is his rebuttal. -raronauer

The question at the heart of Rebecca's post about Brijit is one media types have been dealing with since Mosaic first crawled to a web site: Is the Internet, and its predisposition to short-form, kibbles-and-bits content, making people smarter, or making them dumber?

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Sometimes I just have to say, “what the fuck?” and the royal we doesn’t work as well. These are my thoughts—raronauer

In college, pretending to have read books was a necessary skill. There were papers to write, tests to take, and in between, keg parties to crash.

But since I’ve graduated from required reading, my free time is finally free. If I wanted to spend all my non-work hours playing Mortal Combat 2, that would be weird, but still my choice. I end up reading books and magazines because I enjoy to, not because I have to.

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