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What is journalism?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Regan MacNeil, Feb 17, 2023.

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  1. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Speaking of SB Nation...

    SB Nation pulls Daniel Holtzclaw longform piece
     
    wicked, Apr 22, 2023
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  2. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    Man, I just spent a couple hours re-reading that whole thread. #TimeFuckingManagementSkills That might be my favorite thread of all-time. As Double Down said, it was a reminder of the best days of this place...everyone debating a journalism topic at a super deep inside baseball kind of way without any sort of rancor. Well, except for SB Nation and those responsible for that dreadful dreck. Which, it should be noted, proves yet again cancel culture rarely exists. The writer is still writing (as he should, it wasn't his fault he was assigned a story he wasn't ready or qualified to write) and the editor is not only still editing but presenting himself as a super duper ally/advocate of women and women in sports because "Young Woman and the Sea" somehow got made into a movie. What a fucking racket.
     
    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo, Apr 23, 2023
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  3. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Substack is a platform for writers. It doesn't make and I don't think it has ever made any claim to editorial control over what writers who choose to use the platform publish. It's more like Twitter while SB Nation is closer to a newspaper.
     
    justgladtobehere, Apr 23, 2023
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  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Jun 6, 2023
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  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I’d argue again that story is more about The New Yorker policing the “heterodoxy” (good God) beat than anything else; Fair is a tiny org by almost all standards, and orgs like it almost by their nature burn through wads of donor money. These are well-educated intellectuals in a capitalist country, after all. They love spending money.

    Weiss and Rufo rise in this world, of course, because they’ve been empowered through perceived heterodoxy (good God) and they’ve been empowered to that because actual sharp, objective journalists get smothered at East Coast media robot factories.
     
    Alma, Jun 7, 2023
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  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    That Holtzclaw thread was a good read, and a bonus with the links within. Reminder of what this place used to be. Like an air conditioner in a Bedouin tent; it feels good.
     
    goalmouth, Jun 7, 2023
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  7. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    I'm happy to stop thinking of Weiss and Rufo as journalists.

    It was a bad fit for both.
     
    Azrael, Jun 8, 2023
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  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    They're way over-amplified. So is, in sports, Clay Travis.
     
    Alma, Jun 8, 2023
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member



    coolcoolcool

     
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    Azrael, Mar 5, 2024
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  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    They cut their police department funding in 2020 and have had police staffing shortages. That data, which is produced by politicians, might be really misleading if it's more a matter of crime being underreported and/or not policed, than it is crime actually having decreased.

    That has nothing to do with her tweet. I know little about Austin. But I also know to never trust crime statistics on their face. I'm not saying to believe the union rep either automatically, and they are in a contentious contract negotiation -- I'd rather some empirical evidence of what reality is -- but still. ...





    'We are at our breaking point' | Austin Police Association highlights staffing issues at APD
     
    The Big Ragu, Mar 5, 2024
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  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    That lasted a year. Police budget higher than ever, just like each of the last couple years:

    https://www.kvue.com/article/news/p...budget is,increase for all civilian employees.
     
    TheSportsPredictor, Mar 5, 2024
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  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Bari Weiss: Just another libertarian asking questions!™
     
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    Azrael, Mar 5, 2024
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