Month: April 2021
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Many Americans don’t support journalistic values, study says – Columbia Journalism Review
Many Americans don’t support journalistic values, study says Most — if not all — journalists likely share a commitment to a set of journalistic values, including a belief that those in power should be subject to oversight, that transparency is the right approach to important information, that facts are required to get to the truth,…
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Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky | Air transport | The Guardian
Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky The long read: In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he? via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/man-who-fell-from-the-sky-airplane-stowaway-kenya-london Wil was right. It was a body. It – he – had plummeted…
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The Shooting of Daunte Wright and the Meaning of George Floyd’s Death | The New Yorker
The Shooting of Daunte Wright and the Meaning of George Floyd’s Death How much has changed since the events of last spring? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-shooting-of-daunte-wright-and-the-meaning-of-george-floyds-death On Sunday, at the rally, Joanie Shafer, a local photographer, highlighting the connections between Floyd and Wright, pointed out that Wright had called his mother on the phone…
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Embrace the Grind – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Embrace the Grind – Jacob Kaplan-Moss Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding. But sometimes, magic is mundane. If you’re willing to embrace the grind, you can pull off the impossible. Link: https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/ I don’t disagree: being able to offload repetitive tasks to a…
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Deconstructing Disney: Queer Coding and Masculinity in Pocahontas
Deconstructing Disney: Queer Coding and Masculinity in Pocahontas – Longreads Pocahontas may seem like a strange vehicle for discussing our gay villains. But Disney gets inventive when they need to circumvent white people’s historical responsibility for genocidal atrocities — and queerness is a useful scapegoat. via Longreads: https://longreads.com/2021/04/13/deconstructing-disney-queer-coding-and-masculinity-in-pocahontas/ Disney’s attitudes toward colonization and queer coding…
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I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline.
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Decline Of My Democracy. I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn’t what I signed up for. via BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/indian-government-using-tech-destroy-democracy I love…
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Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack – The New York Times
Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack (Published 2021) A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/business/media/substack-newsletter-competition.html So the biggest threat to Substack is unlikely to be the Twitter-centric political battles among some of its writers. The real threat is…
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Trump Put a Right-Wing Radio Host in Charge of a National Park. Emails Show the Chaos That Ensued. – Mother Jones
Trump put a right-wing radio host in charge of a national park. Emails show the chaos that ensued. Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/michael-savage-donald-trump-presidio-trust-san-francisco/ The speaker was silenced after less than a minute, but this exposure to a small…
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After Going ‘Free of L.G.B.T.,’ a Polish Town Pays a Price – The New York Times
After Going ‘Free of L.G.B.T.,’ a Polish Town Pays a Price (Published 2021) Krasnik voted to be “free of L.G.B.T.” two years ago to satisfy conservative voters. Now, the mayor regrets the move, which has led to censure from other European countries and put funding at risk. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/world/europe/poland-lgbt-free-krasnik.html But that changed early last year…
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Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal – The New York Times
Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal (Published 2021) A special team led by a high-level manager says Rupert Murdoch’s paper must evolve to survive. But a rivalry between editor and publisher stands in the way. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/business/media/wall-street-journal-murdoch.html As the team was completing a report on its findings last summer, Mr.…
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Contrasting Histories of Genocide in Former Yugoslavia
Contrasting Histories of Genocide in Former Yugoslavia Dara of Jasenovac and Quo Vadis, Aida? take different tacts on filmic representation of war crimes. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/634129/dara-of-jasenovac-contrasting-histories-of-genocide-in-former-yugoslavia/ In sharp contrast to Antonijević, the director of Quo Vadis, Aida?, Jasmila Žbanić, has come out forcefully against this tendency to speak of “our” genocide against “yours.” Speaking for…
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The Squandered Promise of Chet Hanks’s White-Boy Summer | The New Yorker
The Squandered Promise of Chet Hanks’s White-Boy Summer Perhaps, in the end, we weren’t nearly as ready for it as we might have wanted to be. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-squandered-promise-of-chet-hankss-white-boy-summer In an Instagram story posted this past Thursday, Hanks is seen walking on the beach. “You don’t know what’s gonna hit you. You’re not…
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How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations – The New York Times
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations (Published 2021) Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html “Bandits!” said Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian, who made a $990 online donation to…
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The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror | Mexico | The Guardian
The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror The long read: How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara? via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/01/death-truck-mexico-morgue-crisis-guadalajara To their horror, they were right. Concealed behind the polar bear’s anodyne smile lay 273 decomposing corpses. Still,…