On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

First time I'd seen a Max Planck quote at an activists' march on Parliament Hill.



Here's another one I liked from that march.

I don't agree with the idea.

Reminder: I worked with the CBC's Ottawa newsroom back in the 1990's as a courtroom artist on freelance. I also count several reporters as friends and friendly acquaintances through SF&F fandom channels. This happens, fans are in every line of work, including journalism and the public services of the world, so deal with it.

Back on point: there is a tendency to blame "the media" as a group for sensationalizing every single bad-news story as it develops. I think that stereotyping has roots in facts that were true once upon a time. Going back a century, yes. That problem has been getting addressed over the generations, from the j-school classrooms of the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere across the planet to the newsrooms themselves. Those journalism schools have websites, some of them publish material on best practices currently in play - Ryerson in Canada, Columbia and Poynter in the US all coming to mind right now - and we might help ourselves during this particular crisis to go have a look at those. I'll try to remember to amend this posting with linkages relevant.

Anyway, there's my point for the moment.

More on other topics as the day goes by.

So apparently, there's a Twitter account to keep interested parties up to date on observations of that system.

https://twitter.com/betelbot

...whether you believe in Biblical blessings or not.

Thanks to beatrice_otter for pointing this out to me!

https://tielan.dreamwidth.org/1272395.html

And in a similar theme, from Jon Klein in Regina:

https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/hypocrisy-it-isnt/

Looking at Charlie Stross' moderation policy over at his Diary site, and it occurs to me that they can be adapted to my context somewhat. There are specific changes of context that need making - allowing for Dreamwidth's servers' location (USA) and mine own person's physical location (Canada) and the two are not one and the same - but nothing seems insurmountable to adaptation.

To be clear: I haven't really had much in the way of problems so far, not since switching from Livejournal to Dreamwidth. But it seems like something that might be profitable to anticipate before it becomes a real concern.

Am I worrying too soon?

Barack Obama delivers the Mandela Address this year.

Watch and listen, if you find yourself with an hour and a half to spare.

As a sidebar to some of the recent confusion centred around several continuing stories in the news services: There's a "developing story" blurb that NPR tacks onto fast-moving stuff from time to time to caution readers/viewers/listeners with that I like for situations just like this one. Might be that it ought to become part of journalistic "best practice"...?

Apparently Google and Monotype decided to try to make it happen with their "No More Tofu" project.

Impressive.