Jay Rosen talks about the idea of explainers.
It's a good idea. And it came up again on Twitter yesterday.
It seems people say they use Wikipedia as the source of explainers. I realized I do too. Now the question is this -- is Wikipedia the best we can do? Because what it does is necessary.
For example, in the previous piece, I wanted to link to an explainer about woodwinds.
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