#Journalism#Media#News#Denmark#Objectivity#FakeNews#Disinformation#Misinformation: "In this article, we examine how journalists try to uphold ideals of objectivity, clarity, and epistemic authority when using four overlapping terms: fake news, junk news, misinformation, and disinformation. Drawing on 16 qualitative interviews with journalists in Denmark, our study finds that journalists struggle to convert the ideals of clarity and objectivity into a coherent conceptual practice. Across interviews, journalists disagree on which concepts to use and how to define them, accusing academics of producing too technical definitions, politicians of diluting meaning, and journalistic peers of being insufficiently objective. Drawing on insights from journalism scholarship and rhetorical argumentation theory, we highlight how such disagreements reveal a fundamental tension in journalistic claims to epistemic authority, causing a continuous search for unambiguous terms, which in turn produces the very ambiguity that journalists seek to avoid."
The idea that morality stems from the creator of the universe is baffling. It is "might is right" taken to its extreme, logical, horrible conclusion.
Even if there is a creator, and you can believe whatever you want about that, the idea that whatever it says is good/bad by definition is good/bad just because it says so is absurd!
Morality is hard. There are no easy answers. So naturally we want to avoid the difficulties by deferring to a higher power. But bad is not good no matter who says so.
This #thread inspired by this video by Viced Rhino, and also a recent conversation with my brother, who pretty casually implied that it is good to let people suffer unnecessarily because of what he believes the creator of the universe has tried to convey trough some book anyone can interpret however they want
#Journalism#Media#News#Newspapers #Objectivity: "Regardless of what journalists and owners of major papers proclaim, however, news judgments are inherently subjective. Any claims to objectivity are a convenient fiction. On any given day there are many accurate and arguably newsworthy stories that could appear on a front page. (In our study period, the overlap in front-page-story selection at the Times and the Post was only about a third.) Which topics editors choose to emphasize is neither accurate nor inaccurate; they simply reflect subjective opinions. Likewise, the way an article is written also involves a series of choices—which facts are highlighted, whose voices are included, which perspectives are given weight. Words such as “objectivity” and “independence”—even “truth”—make for nice rhetoric but are so easily twisted to suit one’s agenda as to be meaningless. After all, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson—who, unlike the Times and the Post, don’t operate within the realm of reality—also stake claims to veracity and independence." https://www.cjr.org/analysis/election-politics-front-pages.php
Je vis des journées longues et irréelles :
• le matin j’ai fini de coudre et queeriser la salopette en jean de mon amoureuse @spaceluciolle
• l’après-midi j’ai travaillé à un projet de co-écriture encore secret avec un·e ami·e
• le soir j’ai fait ma première scène de standup en public, au Cabaret des Merveilles, et après j’étais assise dans un canapé entre les deux plus belles meufs de l’établissement (#objectivity™️), et nous sommes reparties à 4 avec ma sublime époux·se.
Et demain je vais revoir mon fils 💝
Bref je me pince.
Most so-called centrists are conservatives who are either too ignorant or too dishonest to admit that's what they're doing.
Wanting health care and thinking that drugs or same-sex marriage should be legal but being right wing on everything else isn't being moderate. Those viewpoints are literally what conservatives in most countries believe.
We need more people to distinguish between conservatism and reactionism. Not being a reactionary doesn't make you a moderate.
The media is supposed to be objective, not neutral or centrist.
Objective: “They sky is blue. This is both the consensus of relevant scientists and something anyone can see for themselves by looking out the window. In fact, I just looked right now, and it was blue. Go look if you’re skeptical.”
Neutrality is: “Some people say that the sky is blue, others say that it’s on fire, and still others say it’s satanic. This reporter remains dutifully neutral and refuses to look out the window. Instead, we’ll simply say that the condition of the sky is controversial and disputed.”
Centrism is: “The far left says the sky is burning due to global warming. The far right says the sky is satanic due to gays and transsexuals. In the interest of centrism, we conclude that the sky is burning with satanic fires. We’re going to ignore the fact that the sky is blue.”
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I’ve written down most of what I’ve learned about xcframeworks into this blog post. I hope it can be a one-stop shop to answer all your practical questions, including: