versus a quote buried towards the end of the article:
“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead, and killing our children,”
Fuck the Times.
helpful in keeping track
STILL the pessimist in me can’t help feel that even if this whole thing puts the feet to the flame for a handful of the powerful (and i’ll still be shocked if that REALLY includes Cameron or even Murdoch), the whole systemic problem, the system of conspiracy of the powerful without any need for concerted conspiracy, will still be firm, perhaps even more-so. When the NOTW scandal is in the rear-view mirror, England (and the world) will still be driving the same shitty car off the same stupid cliff into the same yawning abyss. And how’s your day going?
“The pizza, too, is respectable, especially at Pisa Pizza in Benghazi, where the pies are about a yard in diameter. Proof that Italian colonialism accomplished something after all.”
From an actual article published by the New York Times.
(via Inanities | Sarah Carr)
Next time you ask me why I think the NYTimes international reporting is horrible, stupid, and (at times) absolutely disgusting (and i’m not even touching on the war mongering yet), I’m just going to refer you to this one.
Chris Hedges (via azspot)
to quote Howard Zinn (in an address meant for archivists especially):
Professionalism is a powerful form of social control. By professionalism I mean the almost total immersion in one’s craft, being so absorbed in the day-to-day exercise of those skills, as to have little time, energy, or will to consider what part those skills play in the total social scheme. I say almost-total immersion, because if it were
total, we would be suspicious of it. Being not quite total, we are tolerant of it, or at least sufficiently confused by the mixture to do nothing.
As if the journalism job landscape weren’t terrifying enough, now you’ve got to think about learning to code. It’s yet another new media skill you’ll need to stay ahead of competitors. And make no mistake: they’re stockpiling O’Reilly books.
In 2006, when news-app coder Adrian Holovaty called for more programmers in American newsrooms, he didn’t get much response. But a few years and newspaper bankruptcies later, writers seem to be awakening to the advantages of learning to develop web apps or hack together quick scripts to handle labor-intensive data collection tasks.
Ryan Tate, Hack to Hacker: Rise of The Journalist-Programmer (via soupsoup)
This is gonna be <big>interesting</big>
(via 6h057)
Feel like this has been the case in Libraries and Archives for some time now… Problem is (and I bet this is true in the “journalism job landscape” too) that those hiring often have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to this stuff, just that it’s “important” and “necessary” for new-hires to have.
