Five years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones launched, her "1619 Project," a series of essays in The New York Times that argued the practice of slavery is the true foundation of America. She won a Pulitzer prize and the project went on to become a magazine, book, documentary series and podcast. The backlash was also fierce. A bill was introduced to strip funds from school districts that taught the project. Then-President Trump established the 1776 Commission to support "patriotic education." Hannah-Jones spoke to Poynter about how the project came together, what she learned from it, and the criticism that unfolded.
We’re baaaaaack! After a hiatus due to vacation, we’re resuming our regular #NewstodonFriday thread. In case you’ve forgotten, its purpose is to highlight the work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please boost the posts you like, follow the profiles you discover, donate money, comment, and let us know about other newsrooms and journos that we should feature.
"Adults with a disability remained underrepresented in top films with ratios less than 3-to-1 among streaming film leads, at 9%, and less than 6-to-1 among total streaming film actors, at 4.7%."
Iiiiiiiiit’s #NewstodonFriday! Here’s a thread of stories by newsrooms and journalists that are active in the fediverse. Boost the posts you like, follow the profiles you discover, give financial support to newsrooms and publications, and comment if there are folks you’d like us to feature.
"Publishing fake news for profit should be prosecuted as wire fraud" according to my PhD colleague.
"To use the language of the law: the
publisher obtains money by false pretenses. Publishing fake news is the
pre-eminent example of a growing class of frauds that do not defraud.
These are frauds where the dishonest acquisition of money or property
is not accompanied by the dishonest deprivation of any particular person"
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Happy #NewstodonFriday! Once again, the many newsrooms who have an active presence in the #fediverse have produced inspiring, informative, interesting stories, and we’re highlighting their work in the thread below. If you like what you see, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments.
When a previously well-known person, who you've not seen or heard from for a while pops up across a range of media outlets on the same day/weekend, you can one sure that they have a book, or other project to sell....
It's been 10 years since Flint's water crisis started--all because some white supremacist GOP politicians wanted to (or claimed to want to, given the predictable outcome, it's a safer bet that the damage to the Black community was their real goal) save money on water infrastructure. Legal victories have been won and money set aside for compensation to those injured, but Flint's Black residents mostly haven't seen a dime. And they still pay more for their water than most other city residents in the USA, still suffer health impacts from lead poisoning, and are still witnessing the economic hollowing out of their community. Excellent article:
Capital B News isn't on the Fediverse, but you can follow their RSS feed here at @capitalbnews[email protected]. Plus, if you follow the link above, you'll see that they're doing reader surveys. I forget how I discovered them, but it was just a couple months ago, and since then I've been consistently impressed with the quality of reporting and writing. Check it out! @blackmastodon#BlackMastodon#BlackFedi#Media#News#Reporting
In "Never Been Kissed" Drew Barrymore went undercover as a high-school student; hilarity (and romance) ensued. But when 26-year-old San Francisco Chronicle reporter Shann Nix (now Jones) took on an assignment to do the same in 1992, the outcome was a little more complicated. Peter Hartlaub spoke to her editor, fellow kids, school counselor, and Jones, currently a goat farmer in rural Wales, about what happened then, and how they feel now.
As the article states: "Every library is different, and not every library is going to offer all of the services outlined here. You will have to check the website for your local library—or head to the library and ask someone—to find out what your library has to offer."
So go ahead and check what your local library offers.
Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can’t follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users....
I selfhost both Lemmy and Mastodon. Lemmy is set and forget follow the communities you etc. Mastodon does need a little bit of tweeking after being setup. I have a script the removes remote content from my server after 7 days which keeps the used space down considerably. More details about the commands used can be found here -> docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#media-remove
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
The masses' flight from reality is a condemnation of the world in which they are forced to live. […] The main disadvantage of reality is that it is not logical, coherent or organised.
~ Hannah Arendt, in "Totalitarianism"
Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible
Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can’t follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users....