| Me: | REFUSED |
| Me: | REFUSED |
| Me: | RESUFED |
| Me: | FREFD |
| ME: | REFUSED |
| Shane Garland, my best friend: | I KNOW |
| Me: | That's the only way I can express myself. |
| Me: | I HAVE TO WRITE FIVE STORIES |
| Me: | I CAN'T THINK. |
| Shane: | I am still shaking |
Click the link above for the first installment of my interview series, Portraits of Punk. The subject is Alex, who blogs about menswear and not giving a shit at A Fistful of Style.
| Me: | "So, how many employees were laid off when you guys left town?" |
| PR lady: | "We lost 8 percent of our total workforce when that location closed, but we were able to find jobs elsewhere for 39 percent of those laid off." |
| Me: | "Ummm ... what's that in integers? " |
| PR lady: | "We dont' disclose that information." |
| Me: | "OK, well is your company profitable?" |
| PR Lady: | "We grow every year." |
| Me: | "OK, but are you profitable?" |
| PR Lady: | "We service dozens of Fortune 5,000 companies." [yes, that's three zeroes] |
| Me, giving up: | "Thanks for your time." |
“I’m not saying you should do this, but if you locked a bunch of 13 year-olds in a classroom with notebooks, art supplies and a stack of Thrasher magazines, and blasted Slayer’s Reign In Blood for 3 hours, this is exactly the kind of art that would be produced. And it would be worth it.”
Something happened in our press over the last 40 years or so that never got acknowledged and to this day would be denied by a majority of newsroom professionals. Somewhere along the way, truthtelling was surpassed by other priorities the mainstream press felt a stronger duty to. These include such things as “maintaining objectivity,” “not imposing a judgment,” “refusing to take sides” and sticking to what I have called the View from Nowhere.
No one knows exactly how it happened, for it’s not like a policy decision came down at some point. Rather, the drift of professional practice over time was to bracket, or suspend sharp questions of truth and falsehood in order to avoid charges of bias, or excessive editorializing. Journalists felt better, safer, on firmer professional ground–more like pros–when they stopped short of reporting substantially untrue statements as false. One way to describe it (and I believe this is the correct way) is that truthtelling moved down the list of newsroom priorities. Other things now ranked ahead of it.
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— Jay Rosen on that whole NY Times thing (via susie-c)
FJP: That whole NY Times thing.
(via futurejournalismproject)
They make the world easier and more enjoyable. They boost productivity and provide entertainment and information and sometimes even status. At least for a while. At least until they are obsolete. At least until they are garbage.
Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections.
And, oh, I am guilty. I am guilty. I am guilty."
– Mat Honan, Gizmodo, reporting on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter. (via futurejournalismproject)
Your favorite man on the street reporter, Clark Kent, is back with the question everyone’s asking this week: What is your New Year’s resolution?
Read More at ComicsAlliance.
“Most of us believe that what is most important is to open space for conversations - for democracy - real, direct and participatory democracy. Our only demand then would be to be left alone in our plazas, parks, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods so as to meet one another, reflect together, and in assembly forms decide what our alternatives are. From there … we can discuss what sort of demands we might have and who might be able to meet these demands. Or, perhaps … the issues of demands upon others will become mute. If there are enough of us, we may one day only make demands of ourselves.” — Marina Sitrin, writing in “Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America” compiled by the editors of n+1.
Hey #punks. If you want to be interviewed for my new project, hit me up. I’d love to talk with you.
Oh, and reblog widely, If you wouldn’t mind.
Just saw this commercial and it made me want to check Google+ for the first time in weeks. After that, I figure I probably still won’t check for another few weeks. Good commercial, ghost-town social network.
