Can the New York Times Turn Its Writers Into Video Stars?

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“Hold on, I’m going to show you something funny,” Wesley Morris says. The New York Times critic and I are deep into a conversation about a long-simmering anxiety: that digital consumption is rapidly skewing toward increasingly video-centric platforms, potentially marginalizing any media that isn’t primarily visual. He pauses, steps away...