{"id":2602,"date":"2016-09-08T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2016-09-23T00:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:30:32","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-raw-sawhill-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Ray Sawhill about Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ray-Sawhill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2070 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ray-Sawhill.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Sawhill\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ray-Sawhill.jpg 400w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ray-Sawhill-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ray-Sawhill-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldestein talk to Ray Sawhill. Ray is a retired journalist who lives in Santa Barbara, CA. He blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uncouthreflections.com\/\">Uncouth Reflections<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uncouthreflections.com\/author\/michaelblowhard\/\">Paleo Retiree<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topics include:<\/p>\n<p>Ray&#8217;s career as an Arts, Culture, and Film journalist at Newsweek<br \/>\nHow Ray stumbled into journalism, and how that was not his original passion in life<br \/>\nHow artist and writers often get into journalism to make a living<br \/>\nThe era of the journalist as the gatekeeper<br \/>\nCensorship in journalism<br \/>\nHow the internet is changing journalism<br \/>\nThe effects of the internet on cultural innovation<br \/>\nHow the internet both enables creative types and non conformist to get their views across, while enforcing conformity for the rest<br \/>\nThe impacts of the internet and social media on millennials<br \/>\nThe internet and the concept of infinite knowledge<br \/>\nRay started online blogging at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2blowhards.com\/\">2Blowhards<\/a>, because he wanted a platform for people with interesting cultural views who did not embrace the political correctness of the culture scene<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arts_%26_Letters_Daily\">Arts &amp; Letters Daily<\/a><br \/>\nRay writings for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/ray_sawhill\">Salon.com<\/a>, how he interviewed Roger Scruton, and Thomas Sowell, and how Salon was much more open minded back than<br \/>\nThe concept of good taste, and Ray&#8217;s observation that the wealthy and cultural elite form their taste\u00a0in consensus<br \/>\nRay&#8217;s point about people who travel is that they don&#8217;t come home and say why doesn&#8217;t their home town resemble the places they visit<br \/>\nRay&#8217;s involvement the Punk Rock scene in New York in the 70&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s<br \/>\nHow the Avant Garde was a product of technological limitations<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=yippie\">yippie<\/a>\u00a0movement in the 60&#8217;s as a precursor to the Alt Right troll culture<br \/>\nHow the left counter-culture got absorbed into the establishment and the Alt Right is the new counter-culture<br \/>\nHow the culture has stagnated and people are looking to the past for inspiration<br \/>\nRay and his wife Polly Frost co-produced a webseries <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1333036\">THE FOLD<\/a><br \/>\nVaporwave &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE\">MACINTOSH PLUS<\/a><br \/>\nSam Hyde&#8217;s new\u00a0<a id=\"vs0p1c0\" class=\"r-i1tSuC6gRAeU\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/videos\/million-dollar-extreme-presents-world-peace\" data-preconnect-urls=\"http:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/,http:\/\/clickserve.dartsearch.net\/\">World Peace show on Adult Swim<\/a><br \/>\nHow the 1970&#8217;s are considered to be the peak of American Cinema<br \/>\nFilms including,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_Driver\">Taxi Driver<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirty_Harry\">Dirty Harry<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Falling_Down\">Falling Down<\/a><br \/>\nHow art should\u00a0transcend politics<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2602-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ray-Sawhill-Journalism.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ray-Sawhill-Journalism.mp3\">https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ray-Sawhill-Journalism.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ray-Sawhill-Journalism.mp3\">Click Here<\/a> to download!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Artrstark\/\"><span style=\"color: #1a0dab;\">Check out Robert Stark&#8217;s Artwork<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"75RF3EG8CMWVE\" \/><br \/>\n<input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldestein talk to Ray Sawhill. Ray is a retired journalist who lives in Santa Barbara, CA. He blogs at&nbsp;Uncouth Reflections&nbsp;as&nbsp;Paleo Retiree Topics include: Ray&rsquo;s career as an Arts, Culture, and Film journalist at Newsweek How Ray stumbled into journalism, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Stark interviews Ray Sawhill about Journalism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,644,623,457,336,429,554,459,428,423,376,193,140,411,172,625,289,244,516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-alex-von-goldstein","category-architecture","category-art","category-censorship","category-cinema","category-cities","category-culture","category-film","category-internet","category-journalism","category-millennials","category-music","category-new-york","category-political-correctness","category-ray-sawhill","category-santa-barbara","category-social-media","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}