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Postby coop » Wed May 27, 2020 10:44 am

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Postby The Bee (from nature) » Sun May 31, 2020 4:41 pm

Looking for a list of police on journo violence/arrests, this thread is really good:

https://twitter.com/jane_c_hu/status/12 ... 0684108800

Anyone know of any missing? Or any other lists that are good?
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Postby brent » Wed Jun 03, 2020 7:35 pm


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Postby Feech La Manna » Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:59 am





there is something incredibly wrong with this man
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Postby surly » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:05 am

he realizes this obtuse tweeting is just gonna lead to whichever vox employees have been keeping their complaints private to blast him in public now, right?
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Postby razzle » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:11 am

Was MIchael Tracey from the Exile?

Everyone online has an opinion on him
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Postby Feech La Manna » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:14 am

iirc he was on everyone's radar during the 2016 election for being a dumb contrarian "leftist" account and then he really blew up during the whole Maxine Waters thing
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Postby light rail coyote » Thu Jun 04, 2020 5:30 pm

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Postby auspice » Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:21 am

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Postby ecto » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:11 am

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Postby surly » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:13 am

well then
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Postby struttin' evil mushroom » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:28 am

there is a certain kind of person who sees every criticism as validation. it takes what i imagine is an exhausting amount of mental gymnastics so they all have to stick together for strength
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Postby surly » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:33 am

on the contrary, i think it's far easier to declare everyone else wrong than examine why your brain is so fucking broken
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Postby Feech La Manna » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:50 am

I knew our friend had questionable politics but I thought he was at least smarter than that
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Postby Feech La Manna » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:51 am

This made me laugh pretty hard

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Postby struttin' evil mushroom » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:11 am

Feech La Manna wrote:I knew our friend had questionable politics but I thought he was at least smarter than that


i think you got it backwards: his politics as far as i could tell are 'fine' if to the right of most boarders now, and he was and i'm sure is funny/kind IRL

he just had journalist brain
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Postby struttin' evil mushroom » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:21 am

i won't belabor it because i've written about it ad nauseam here (though those posts are probably lost to wipes) but i also had journalism brain all through college; the j-schools really beat it into you and if you work on your college paper it's basically a co-ed frat and you invent a lot of reasons to feel like people aren't in solidarity with you

but man once you start working and see how shit actually works it just gets beaten out of you so quickly if you are at all a socially conscious person. most folks can't deal with it and quit pretty early on. i always admire the ones who stay and try to take it on from the inside. that is incredible, exhausting emotional labor.

and then i guess you have a few people who really believe it, deep down, and hell say what you will but at least it's an ethos. the problem is it's basically an evolutionarily advantageous trait for various reasons (not least of which is that the most powerful people in journalism almost exclusively come from elite institutions, if not elite/privileged backgrounds, so of course a certain degree of self-confidence is valued, as is a certain degree of refusing to challenge the tenets of the previous generation of elite journalists; also, being a contrarian sells!) so it appears most frequently in the most powerful journos
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Postby jefe górgory » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:22 am

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Postby alaska » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:26 am

ecto wrote:Image

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Postby alaska » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:27 am

struttin' evil mushroom wrote:i won't belabor it because i've written about it ad nauseam here (though those posts are probably lost to wipes) but i also had journalism brain all through college; the j-schools really beat it into you and if you work on your college paper it's basically a co-ed frat and you invent a lot of reasons to feel like people aren't in solidarity with you

but man once you start working and see how shit actually works it just gets beaten out of you so quickly if you are at all a socially conscious person. most folks can't deal with it and quit pretty early on. i always admire the ones who stay and try to take it on from the inside. that is incredible, exhausting emotional labor.

and then i guess you have a few people who really believe it, deep down, and hell say what you will but at least it's an ethos. the problem is it's basically an evolutionarily advantageous trait for various reasons (not least of which is that the most powerful people in journalism almost exclusively come from elite institutions, if not elite/privileged backgrounds, so of course a certain degree of self-confidence is valued, as is a certain degree of refusing to challenge the tenets of the previous generation of elite journalists; also, being a contrarian sells!) so it appears most frequently in the most powerful journos


This checks out to me
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Postby struttin' evil mushroom » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:38 am

if journalism schools actually cared about fulfilling a social mission they would close shop. they serve primarily as a feeder program where editors at elite institutions can hire 21-year-olds fresh out of elite institutions

you can learn what you need to learn in less than a half-dozen classes: reporting/editing 101 [this includes digital media], media law, and a specialist class or two (TV/audio/photo/design, or business/enviro reporting, whatever). comms/mass media study is obviously extraordinarily important and i'm not saying get rid of any of that, but if you want to be an actual reporter you should take a handful of classes, get a certification/minor, and be forced to major in something that actually teaches you about the world

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Postby light rail coyote » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:40 am

struttin' evil mushroom wrote:
Feech La Manna wrote:I knew our friend had questionable politics but I thought he was at least smarter than that


i think you got it backwards: his politics as far as i could tell are 'fine' if to the right of most boarders now, and he was and i'm sure is funny/kind IRL

he just had journalist brain


i don't necessarily think that "journalist brain" and "bad politics" are separate things.
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Postby light rail coyote » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:41 am

you can have all kinds of seemingly progressive positions but if your main mode of interacting with the world is defending bad faith actors, then your good progressive positions are irrelevant.
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Postby surly » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:46 am

well a big feature of journalist brain is blindness to bad faith action
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Postby surly » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:47 am

that said, the absolute explosion of outrage from within NYT over the cotton piece suggests maybe things are changing a bit!
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Postby light rail coyote » Fri Jun 05, 2020 10:57 am

i dunno, i didn't post here with murray as long as other people did but he always struck me as basically having the same personality disposition as ben shapiro, just with supposedly progressive politics in the sense that he's one of the most bad faith people i've ever seen here, right up to his famous "we need more clay" post in defense of keeping dalen while women and queer boarders were saying that he was harassing people

that's seperate from the larger question, obviously.
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Postby struttin' evil mushroom » Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:01 am

surly wrote:well a big feature of journalist brain is blindness to bad faith action


it's not blindness so much as it is a belief, bordering on religion (and, if i can editorialize, bordering on obsequiousness) that it is not the journalist's job to litigate bad faith and/or cruelty (this also explains his dalen opinions imo!)

but yes, this. also lrc, i am trying not to talk too ill of someone who isn't here to defend themselves and who has had this exact argument with me many times before they ghosted, though who knows, maybe he talks shit about hpn on his various slacks
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Postby struttin' evil mushroom » Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:04 am

not saying anyone else shouldn't but the dynamic is different when you've taken shots with the guy. i still want to believe one day he will read these posts and realize people earnestly believe better is possible. probably extremely dumb.
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Postby light rail coyote » Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:05 am

yeah, it's probably not entirely fair to bring that up but it doesn't seem totally irrelevant.
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Postby auspice » Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:24 am

struttin' evil mushroom wrote:i won't belabor it because i've written about it ad nauseam here (though those posts are probably lost to wipes) but i also had journalism brain all through college; the j-schools really beat it into you and if you work on your college paper it's basically a co-ed frat and you invent a lot of reasons to feel like people aren't in solidarity with you

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and then i guess you have a few people who really believe it, deep down, and hell say what you will but at least it's an ethos. the problem is it's basically an evolutionarily advantageous trait for various reasons (not least of which is that the most powerful people in journalism almost exclusively come from elite institutions, if not elite/privileged backgrounds, so of course a certain degree of self-confidence is valued, as is a certain degree of refusing to challenge the tenets of the previous generation of elite journalists; also, being a contrarian sells!) so it appears most frequently in the most powerful journos


it's a weird mix of denialism and ego. most people envision themselves going into journalism and "making a difference" only to realize how corporate ownership over every paper/station/media company stifles a huge majority of Good Journalism that can happen. Everything is a content mill and if you aren't working on Ronan Farrow-level stories (if your company even allows that, that is, never forget that Esquire killed their Bryan Singer expose for mysterious reasons) then you aren't contributing to the content that results in all your ad revenue, so you become an unnecessary expense. Journalists see this and know this in their hearts and it gets them down, but then Donald Trump will say something stupid about Lamestream Media and all the blue checks do their typical, "we are important!" rhetoric even though their work constantly proves how replaceable they are.
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