![]() ![]() Because of this, I discovered some interesting things that happened around the world while I was preoccupied with the subtle frustrations and pleasures of my own life. Something that added value to my enjoyment of this issue: during those months, I was actively writing in a journal everyday. My first issue of Delayed Gratification covered January to March, 2019. In addition to slow journalism, I’ve heard it described as fast history. There are relevant, informative pieces on recent enough events, comfortably nestled between lighthearted infographics that relate interestingly to major events during the three month period covered. ![]() The index has articles labelled as either frivolous or serious. They’ve never read a newspaper, or any weekly or monthly periodicals that have historically taken this slower approach to news reportage. ![]() Already the magazine was helping me to slow down.ĭelayed Gratification seems particularly aimed toward those who have grown up with social media and have never been exposed to long-form journalism. Remembering what the title of the magazine was, and motivated by a desire to never be that person, I shelved the idea of calling and resigned myself to waiting patiently for the magazine to arrive. As I explained the basics of the free market, their own dogma, to them I will never forget the moment their righteous indignation slipped into self-pity as they observed their own lack of self-awareness. Every time I wanted to email or call to check on my first issue’s status, I remembered a time a few months back at the bookshop where I work: a rabid Ayn Rand fan was complaining about the price of a rare hardcover edition of The Fountainhead. While waiting I had to fight back thoughts of getting in touch with the publisher to see when the issue was scheduled to arrive. Delayed Gratification publishes quarterly, and each issue covers a three month period of time. The somewhat ironic poetry of subscribing to this magazine was that I had to wait kind of a long time for the first issue to arrive. It was an idea I wanted to know more about, and I think of it as an antidote to the onslaught of social media reactionary nobody-actually-reads-the-article-they-just-read-the-headline-and-skip-to-the-comments-to-learn-what-their-opinion-should-be “news” we are hyper-addicted to. So, I sought out and subscribed to Delayed Gratification, one of the more prominent slow journalism periodicals. Whether or not the term is just a re-branding of the best ideals of what journalism has always strived to be is up for debate, but focusing on accurate and ethical reporting instead of first and fastest seems an admirable aim in the age of the 24 hour news cycle, and something I’d very much like to support. ApI first heard about the concept of slow journalism in Slow Media, by Jennifer Rauch. ![]()
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