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hmmm, "visual storytelling"

artappraiser — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:29:27 +0000

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hmmm, "visual storytelling" and "Narrative Projects"

We're excited to announce that @dodaistewart, a great editor with a passion for visual storytelling, joins the @nytimes Special Projects team as deputy editor for Narrative Projects. https://t.co/QLTOXMWio0
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 31, 2020

I could expound on it but I think I'll wait and see what they do.

Just thought of something

artappraiser — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:48:54 +0000

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Just thought of something that always intrigued me, how much Thoreau basically distrusted zeitgeist and "news". Interesting precisely because he was not a fundamentalist in any way, it wasn't that he thought there were essential truths written down in some holy book. He would certainly not think much of the world today nor us news junkies who like to use all the bits and pieces of news in conjunction with big picture think pieces.

“If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident,” he wrote, “or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter – we never need read of another. One is enough."

The one contrary bit I have to offer here is that I have certainly noted a lot of writing about how coronavirus isolation and lockdown has offered a lot of people who never had the ability before to slow down and think about big pictures instead of bits and pieces. BUT then I've also seen a lot saying doing that has increased the incidence of depression!

It all depends on how you

ocean-kat — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:14:51 +0000

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It all depends on how you choose to look at the populations. Blacks are more uniform in their polling results than whites. Does it really provide useful data to compare all whites with all blacks? The differences between white liberals, moderates and conservatives is huge. The differences between black conservatives, moderates, and liberals isn't nearly as large nor are there many black conservatives.

The underlying message of the

rmrd0000 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:07:36 +0000

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The underlying message of the article is that we are having more discussions about race because "white" newspaper control the narrative A biased study that agrees with your bias is considered a great study.

It is very easy to find studies with opposite conclusions. Case in point

The bottom line is that nonwhites tend to see racial discrimination a lot more than whites do. Take a look at these numbers: An overwhelming 87% of black Americans say black people face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but only 49% of white Americans say the same thing, according to a February poll from the Public Religion Research Institute.

Meanwhile, six in 10 Americans (61%) said racism against blacks is widespread in the United States in a Gallup poll last August -- up from just 51% at the beginning of President Barack Obama's first term in 2009. But that includes a broad racial split: 82% of blacks vs. just 56% of whites.

And nonwhites take the topic a lot more seriously. A Quinnipiac University poll in March found 66% of nonwhites labeled prejudice a "very serious" problem, while only 39% of whites felt the same way. Meanwhile, one in four whites (25%) said it was not a serious problem and only one in 10 nonwhites (11%) felt the same way.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/blacks-white-racism-united-states-polls/index.html

It's uncanny how this guy

artappraiser — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:09:15 +0000

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It's uncanny how this guy often comes up with a quote related to what I am thinking about:

"Moreover, what good are friends if they just come over for the sake of their own pleasure? Someone who prefers to hear a friend’s good book rather than to help make it good is a kind of voluptuary, and practically a stranger."https://t.co/8AVthPM7bU via @sentantiq
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) August 31, 2020

I thought of a a new tag line

artappraiser — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:06:00 +0000

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I thought of a a new tag line for an old tv show: There's 9 million stories in the naked city, but only the black ones need to be told right now.

It's not a conspiracy though. You can't force people to pay attention to what they don't want to pay attention to. The German's made a word for it: zeitgeist.

Though some prefer it, it's hard to make most people eat their vegetables and get a balanced diet. I.E., tabloids always offered fatty sweets, now "clickbait" does. Then there's something bloggers started, the tagline "where's the outrage?" which is an invite to communally share anger and let go of any sense of proportion...

I read the friggin link.

rmrd0000 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:31:18 +0000

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I read the friggin link.

It seems that he made his conclusion and then picked data to support his conclusion. He starts off by saying that the liberal media picked up the language of the protestors. He assumes that the protestors are wrong. One example he gives is of an article that suggested that hard work would allow you to achieve whatever you wanted was attacked as racist. His opinion overlooks the fact the we clearly see examples that question the opinion that race does not matter in advancement.

Today in the "woke" NYT", we have the story of a black Marine colonel passed over for promotion several times. Is it woke to question if race played a role.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/politics/marines-race-general.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Is it woke to note that maternal death rates are higher among black women despite having equal access to insurance coverage? When black women tell us that their complaints were ignored and thinks like pulmonary emboli were missed, is it being woke to ask what is happening?

Again, I think he accumulated data that supported his bias. He starts off complains about wokeness. What other conclusion will he come to except that the NYT and WaPo are Woke?

Edit to add:

The author does the sleight of hand by discussing "microaggressions", ignoring a ton of data that shows racis impacting health, education, housing, employment, etc. all of these issues could explain the increased use of racial language in the "papers of record". He overlooks those facts to say newspapers are now magically promoting black nationalism. It is lazy journalism.

Why not just follow the link

EmmaZahn — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:32:03 +0000

In reply to He is studying an effect. Isn

Why not just follow the link and read for yourself? Better yet, follow his twitter feed. He has asked followers for input. His twitter address is at the end of the Tablet article.

He is studying an effect. Isn

rmrd0000 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:07:26 +0000

In reply to I am sure they do and even

He is studying an effect. Isn't asking the cause important? If real events are happening, why dismiss them as being "Woke"? The papers of record are unlikely to be creating the idea of police brutality. I doubt that protests are not because of what the NYT or WaPo are reporting, but a response to local events. What you see as anti-white and woke is simply a response to police abuse. Stop and Frisk impacted citizens of NYC. They didn't need to read the newspaper to have a reaction. The anti-NYPD sentiment in NYC was created by the NYPD, not the NYT or WaPo. The newspapers did not decide when and where protests would occur.

I am sure they do and even

EmmaZahn — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:48:10 +0000

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I am sure they do and even more so Ferguson and Trayvon Martin stories that occurred a year or two earlier. That is unless he specifically excluded them because he is not tracking reactions to specific events but rather the rise in anti-white and woke sentiments in national media, primarily the so-called newspapers of record, NYT and Wapo.