On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Matt Galloway and Rachel Maddow discuss how "all of this has happened before; all of this will happen again"...and not in the context of Second Galactica.

Yes, what we're seeing in the States at the moment is not the first attempt to steer that country onto a permanently fascist course.

1. Charlie Angus, on Being an MP in the Age of Conspiracy, Theoretical and Not:

https://www.policymagazine.ca/being-an-mp-in-the-age-of-conspiracy-theoretical-and-not/

2. Carole Cadwalladr gets a victory, finally:

https://t.co/Zj0TzN9W6x

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/19/the-observer-view-on-carole-cadwalladr-victory-public-service-journalism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

More on other topics as they occur to me...

On the nature and preparation of the Ottawa Siege:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-convoy-protesters-communication-1.6405434

Carole Cadwalladr, on having faced libel trial at the High Court despite having her facts straight:

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1509612965011804162

I want a better accounting of so many things.

I'm listening to this tonight as I type these words:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/connie-walker-on-how-lived-experience-can-help-indigenous-journalists-expose-truth-1.6307328

I'm done with shopping for the afternoon, and getting laundry underway. That's expected to be a short chore.

In the meantime, I've tried to set up my digital subscription to the Toronto Star, partly because retail delivery to my closest grocery outlet is stalled today, partly due to the need to support democracy in general, and partly due to tax advantages. I would much prefer the hardcopy edition being delivered to my door, but that seems to be a problem for the Star to arrange for Ottawa subscribers in general these days. One wonders how closely they're tracking digital subscription stats by hometown. Might there be a "tripwire" number that - if achieved - they start looking at arranging home hardcopy delivery for qualifying communities?

Problem: I get this message when I make the attempt...

CityID field contained invalid characters. (19)
There was an error creating your order. If this problem persists please contact customer service.

I've e-mailed their circulation desk about that issue and hope to get useful information soon.

I would also much prefer a locally-owned newspaper operating in tune with the Atkinson Principles, as either a subscriber, a prospective employee, or both. (This isn't the first time I've mentioned that topic here.) Seeing as both major anglophone daily papers in Ottawa-Gatineau are currently owned by Postmedia, that's not going to happen unless Postmedia is broken up or the major chartered banks have an attack of social responsibility on a grander scale than I'm used to.

More on this topic another time. Hopefully soon.

Spark is discussing the problem of "link rot" this week. It's an ongoing issue for all of us, I suspect, depending on how old our respective weblogs are. I'm guilty of aggravating the problem by way of not correcting links between blog entries here since moving the whole blog over from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth back in 2017, for example.

Also, I think that paywalls aggravate the "link rot" problem. But what to do to keep those old news services' archives preserved and available without undermining peoples' efforts to keep earning whatever living they can?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/something-s-rotten-in-the-state-of-the-internet-and-archivists-are-worried-1.6047113

I think we have a problem here with this deal.

I'm annoyed that I missed or forgot to notice the implications of it for the better part of a year. Because Thomson Reuters owns the Globe and Mail as well, I think I'm going to have to stop buying that newspaper, regardless of what I think of the people working there. Am I wrong to believe that a realistic prospect?

Interesting!

https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2021/four-digital-tools-that-got-me-through-the-pandemic/

In Canada, we have something called the Canadian Public Affairs Channel, jointly funded by the country's cable TV service providers. I think the US counterpart is C-SPAN? Anyway, if you've an interest in public affairs journalism, work focused on documenting what the federal, provincial and territorial governments are doing, this link might be worth bookmarking:

https://www.cpac.ca/en/careers/#

This is part of why. Also, I have friends whom I want to keep safe.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/proud-boys-philly-police-fop-mike-pence-mcnesby-trump-alt-right-20200710.html

Yes, some of you already have grounds to be suspicious about who's in cahoots with whom going back years.