Do we REALLY know what a person's True motives are for Anything? NO ~ one may speculate/offer an opinion, Their perspective.
IMO ~ just because someone's in the public eye, #newsreporters have NO jurisdiction to dissect Anyone &/or slant facts toward Their personal ideologies.
⚖Leave LEGALITIES such as #crimesandmisdemeanors to the #LegalSystem of a respective #government ; where a person &/or organization's conduct is questioned ~ NOT, in the illusive Misuse of #ThePress
> The ominous paralysis continues. There has been a slight sprinkle—an exceedingly slight sprinkle—in the correspondence columns, of angry rebukes of the President for calling this cowardly massacre a “brilliant feat of arms,” and for praising our butchers for “holding up the honor of the flag” in that singular way; but there is hardly a ghost of a whisper about the feat of arms in the editorial columns of the papers.
https://www.marktwainproject.org/writings/autobiography3/autobiography/autobio_dictations/autobio1_1906-03-14/
#MarkTwain #ThePress1906 #ThePress #NYT1906 ?
#JoloMassacre #MassacreOfMoros
Great news. PapersPast have added issues of The [Christchurch] Press from 1990 to 1995! They will be a mine of information, especially for those researching recent family history, especially in that part of Aotearoa.
@SharonCrockett
Thx 4 orig mekka boost
@mekkaokereke
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But they weren't immortal...they were just brave. Many Black soldiers died freeing Europe from the nazis. Europeans were grateful. #Racist Americans? Not so much
This is why the US #4thestate #thepress etc can help to expose, that #racism is a bad thing
The #WW2 Black Panther tank division, is like the _reverse_ newspapers slogan,
⭕If it leads, it bleeds
There's a standout article in #ThePress by Charlie Mitchell detailing how in the 1960s Christchurch city, NZ, came within a whisker of having a major motorway built through the middle of Hagley Park. That's the big park in the core of the city. The majority of local politicians were all for the motorway and it was only stopped by a coincidental administrative change in the way parks were managed that was backed by a national government decision.
Christchurch's mayor in the late 1960s, Ron Guthrey, was an ardent motorway supporter. The Press article notes how, in his inaugural speech as mayor, "he floated the idea of allowing cars to drive through the Botanic Gardens". At the next election he became the first sitting Christchurch mayor to be defeated in nearly half a century.
I see some parallels here with our current self-described "petrol head" mayor who wants to dig up a central city cycleway.
In the 1960s, opposition to the motorway was led by conservative councillor Peter Skellerup. “Surely the cult of the motor-car is not so strong that we carve through our oldest and most beloved reserve,” he said in 1963. “You can't land an aeroplane in the city… surely the car should be restricted from certain places.” "Skellerup, running to reclaim his seat, won more votes than any other council candidate in New Zealand’s history."
@Nonilex Just a note: Would any reasonable news publication say "According to specialists it's raining"? "Specialists refer to the Palisades & Eaton events as 'wildfires'"?
No, they wouldn't, because we don't qualify facts when they can or should be assumed to be plain to any reasonable reader/listener.
- so maybe, #ThePress, lose the "legal specialists" bullshit & start describing actual, obvious crimes as such?
This is called a Kleptocracy, which is an inevitable characteristic of fascism - but it will be a cold day in Hell before mainstream news media will call it either of those things...
For the record, we are way past Betteridge's Law. In case you don't know it, it's the one about how any news headline formulated as a question can be answered "No".
In a time where erstwhile respectable outlets' headlines be like "Is Alligator Alcatraz illegal?" or "Is Trump a criminal?" or "Did a cop murder a black person?" etc., the new rule of thumb is that #ThePress will use the question format to avoid having to state something obvious/factual that might make rich people mad.
It's local election year in Christchurch City, NZ, which means we have some politicians, including our self-confessed "petrol-head" mayor, making noise about the city's allegedly high spending on cycle ways. There's a good article today in #ThePress pushing back against that, showing that cycle way spending will be about 0.11% of rates increases. They compare that with the 4.6% rates increase for our new stadium.
What the article doesn't do is compare the city's cycle way and car way spending. I found numbers for the region on the ECan website for the next 10 years, for building and servicing our transport infrastructure. It's 74.3% car spend (mostly road maintenance and improvements), 21.9% public transport (including operating the bus fleets), and 3.3% cycling and walking.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360782234/what-cutting-cycleways-would-really-save-ratepayers
Consider if you will this headline: "Are women paid less than men for the same work?"
Or "Did people die from COVID?"
Or "Does smoking cause cancer?"
OK, how about this one: "Did the Nazis kill Jews in concentration camps?"
NOW DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DON'T FRAME FUCKING FACTS AS A FUCKING QUESTION, YOU FUCKING FASCISM-ENABLING DICKHOLES!?!?!???
DON'T. PHRASE. FACTS. AS QUESTIONS!!!
Look, I fucking hate that I have to explain this... 🤬
If you ask "Are there labor camps in the US now?", someone can just say "I don't think so" & be entirely justified.
If you say "There are labor in the US now" & they say "I don't think so", then they're denying reality & they'll know it & so will any observer.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/114813817167287636 #ThePress #media #journalism #WordsMatter
Propaganda = entangling the question of whether it's raining or not in enough verbiage to trick journalists into "letting people make up their own mind".
Discuss.
#propaganda #communication #ThePress #4thEstate #news #journalism
#ThePress has an article out about several recent sightings of tūī across Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.
Tūī have become an icon for efforts across the city and Banks Peninsula to control introduced mammalian predators and regenerate and replant the lost native forest. These efforts are resulting in a gradual return of native birds.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360730774/return-tui-songbirds-spotted-christchurch
Ed Zitron, who is both smarter than me & has a vastly larger audience, is asking the same question as me: Where are all the actual #AI success stories?
- and also asking #tech #media & #ThePress at large the same thing I've been known to: FUCKING STOP PARROTING SILICON VALLY PRESS RELEASES & BILLIONAIRE BRAIN VOMIT AS "NEWS"!!
Tech coverage is literally gaslighting at this point & it's incredibly harmful.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sic/ #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #business
Exactly. People have no idea that because the only thing #LLM-driven #AI is actually good at is faking human writing patterns via statistics, is worse at everything than the tools built for those things.
I've lost track of how many blank stares I've got, including from engineers & statisticians, when I tell them that literally the only thing this #tech does is predict the next language token - nothing else.
Because #ThePress has allowed the marketing to be the story.
@femme_mal - and #ThePress giving it to him. Editorial decision makers REALLY need to learn to distinguish between "person worth listening to" & "random asshole"...
You know, I'm pretty tired of seeing references to current goings-on in terms of, say, "a wider backlash to DEI" so this is for #journalists everywhere: There is no "wider" anything.
I'm perfectly serious. All of *gestures at everything* is the result of an extremely narrow "backlash" - a concerted effort from a very small interest group with outsized influence, in no small part thanks to exactly this kind of criti-hype'y coverage.
Do better.
I do not fucking understand: Why, after a couple of thousand words about how badly it works & always will, does Chris Mims still need to sign off on the idea that AI is fantastic & inevitable!?
Why do tech writers do this shit constantly? Roko's Basilisk? Kickback? Stupidity? Malevolence? What could possibly such an overpowering reason that they simply cannot read even their own writing on the wall?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ai-thinks-356969f8?st=JK4ruj #tech #ai #media #ThePress #journalism
No, seriously - even Matt fucking Taibbi got this as far back as the Tea Party: They're full of shit, top to bottom 👉 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-truth-about-the-tea-party-188228/ (sidebar: What the fuck happened to that guy?)
Yet #ThePress still doesn't call 47 a liar. They still call racists & bigots anything but, favoring words like "populist" as if they're popular & "controversial" as if they boldly stand for something. They still swaddle overt facts like Nazi salutes in weasel words.
All doing nothing but privileging nazis.
I don't give many shits about Joe Rogan but this one is kind-of important - in fact it's what Cody's old colleague Jason Pargin (who I usually respect a lot) should have said instead of "Maybe deplatforming bigots was wrong".
The problem isn't even bigots; the problem is an entire #media #culture of letting people pretend to care about issues when they SUPER-OPENLY don't, which privileges bigots.
It's pretending people who are full of shit aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zt7hAFFqfI #resist #ThePress
