I used to work as a reporter for @KPCC (aka Southern California Public Radio.) They knew exactly who we all were even back in 2008 or so. @LASDHQ is full of shit.
Plus, given how many of my colleagues from there have been targeted by law enforcement in recent months, I would argue that they know exactly who everybody is.
We should strip the responsibility of credentialing media from law enforcement agencies and give it over to community groups. They're clearly not capable of handling it and we obviously cannot trust them.
To be honest, I let my credentials expire in 2013 and never looked back. I don't need anybody's fucking permission!!
lol sorry, this is obviously something else I've been chewing on for at least a decade
*takes all our personal information, fingerprints us, goes over our social media, bitches about perceived “anti-cop bias” as we try to do just our jobs*
“KPCC? SCPR? Never heard of ‘em!” Oh okay Alex V.
I’m especially nettled that bad circumstances and bad law enforcement are forcing me to stand with one of the places that unceremoniously fired me. But here we are, whether they want my support or not!
Also check out my bud Joel speaking truth on behalf of @SPJLA in that story
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I've been thinking about doing this thread for a couple of days. This is mostly for myself so I can go back to it, I don't really expect anybody in this dying hellscape to see it, but I wanted to lay it out here for my own sake. Here's my last few years in news stories:
Here's me, just so incredibly naive in late 2016, saying that "fake news" wasn't the problem so much as lack of journalism. For the record, I still stand by this, but at the time I had no idea how much social media was in on the disinfo attacks:
Hi everybody! A lot of you have been asking me what you can get me for my birthday, which is this weekend. Just kidding, literally no one asked me that but just in case you were considering getting me something please donate here instead entertainmentcommunity.org
Alternately, please consider joining a #WritersGuildofAmerica picket line and support the absolute shit out of this strike
I haven't really articulated this much but: Disinformation depends on altering our stories, true ones and fictional ones, to affect how we see ourselves and each other and make the world seem much more negative. There is a lot of power in culture, so of course jackholes want it
"The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges."
"As the planet warms, more calamities will strike the U.S. and, if the recent past is any indication, create new opportunities for militias and other extremist groups to mobilize and recruit...."
That's why all the insane border hardening and eugenics shit is happening now too. Borders are there to consolidate resources. Well, we're the resources they're trying to consolidate.