{"article":{"__typename":"BlogArticle","id":"BlogArticle:6625","categories":[],"content":[{"__typename":"ArticleParagraphContent","subtype":null,"idAttr":"","innerHtml":"Commenter Brucds:"},{"__typename":"ArticleLegacyHtml","tagName":"BLOCKQUOTE","idAttr":"","className":"","style":"","innerHtml":"This is a weird-ass blog - old-school black shit, nerdy video games, generic lib politics, hip-hop, cranky generational issues, Reinhold-fucking-Niebhur, football, weekly poetry. WTF ???? Could we at least get a goddam mission statement ? I'm confused.
"},{"__typename":"ArticleParagraphContent","subtype":null,"idAttr":"","innerHtml":"IDK, I think he's about got it.
"}],"editorialProject":null,"primaryCategory":{"__typename":"Channel","displayName":"Culture","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/","slug":"culture"},"reviews":[],"embeds":[],"authors":[{"id":"Author:1298","displayName":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/","biography":{"default":"Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.","__typename":"Biography"},"socialMedia":[],"__typename":"Author","slug":"ta-nehisi-coates"}],"preview":null,"layout":"standard","secondaryByline":"","dek":"","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/01/about-that-mission-statement/6625/","title":"About that mission statement","seoTitle":"About that mission statement","dateModified":"2009-01-25T21:32:52Z","datePublished":"2009-01-25T21:31:39Z","hasMeter":true,"primaryChannel":{"displayName":"Culture","__typename":"Channel","slug":"culture"},"shareImage1x1":null,"shareImage16x9":null,"shareImage4x3":null,"shareImageDefault":null,"shareImageSquareDefault":null,"shareImageLeadArt":null,"shareDek":"","shareText":null,"shareTitle":"About that mission statement","editorsNote":null,"leadArt":null,"narratedAudio":null,"narratedAudioImage":null,"fbiaUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/6625/","canonicalUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/01/about-that-mission-statement/6625/","syndication":"ALL","shareImage2x1":null,"shareImageSmall":null,"channels":[{"slug":"culture","__typename":"Channel"}],"watsonInfo":{"keywords":["old-school black shit","cranky generational issues","nerdy video games","goddam mission statement","Commenter Brucds","generic lib","weird-ass blog"],"__typename":"WatsonInfo"},"slug":"about-that-mission-statement","grapeshot":{"segments":["shadow9hu7_pos_lexus_fy23","shadow9hu7_pos_safe_strict","tbs_anyrisk","shadow9hu7_pos_bofa-kwlist","shadow9hu7_pos_safe_core","gv_obscenity","tbs_serious","gs_tech_compute_net_social","gs_entertain","gs_entertain_mus","gs_entertain_mus_hiphop","gb_obscenity_news-ent","gs_books","gb_obscenity_serious","gv_adult","gs_tech","gs_tech_compute","gs_tech_compute_net"],"__typename":"Grapeshot"},"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"}}}

Sections

The Print Edition