Anxious Machine

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I've always had a problematic relationship to the news, and I've struggled to navigate that even more since this pandemic began. I talk to my father about the night I yelled at him over his insufficient fear of the virus, and I look back on a 1954 essay by E.B. White about the disparity between his experience of a hurricane and the coverage he hears of that hurricane on the radio.

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Anxious MachineBy Rob McGinley Myers

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