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Crack for Media Addicts

By Garth Risk Hallberg posted at 3:55 pm on February 11, 2010 0

George Packer‘s recent posts on new media’s effects on the reading mind are well worth checking out: “Twitter is crack for media addicts. It scares me, not because I’m morally superior to it, but because I don’t think I could handle it.”

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Garth Risk Hallberg is contributing editor for The Millions. He is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. His stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, New York Magazine, Slate, Canteen, Best New American Voices 2008, and Best of the Web 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.

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