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Jeff Jarvis

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11 Oct

https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1447660668870660100

I didn't argue that. Tell me how y are not misinterpreting me.
Of course, paperbacks changed literature and I'm saying there was cultural handwringing--high v low culture--about that. I sense a similar perhaps snobbish worry here.

https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1447660668870660100

The concern about the paperbacking of culture had its roots in technology--the Linotype, stereotyping, etc--but also, importantly, in distribution: a belief according to some that selling books in train stations and drugstores was not the expansion of culture but its ruin.

For example, from something I'm writing:

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Jeff Jarvis

@jeffjarvis

8 Oct

@mariaressa

Such spectacular news. What a wonderful sign of support for @mariaressa's courageous work.

Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for press freedom washingtonpost.com/world/nobel-pe…

Video of the announcement:

@SZ

In the @SZ, the Nobel for journalists is the lead story.

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Jeff Jarvis

@jeffjarvis

7 Oct

1:1 God made a social network. It was called Earth. Even She could not be certain what would follow.
medium.com/whither-news/g…

2:1 For the longest time, or so it seemed to the people of Earth, She allowed them to roam free, to explore, to commune, to be social.

2:2 Then She decided they required limits to test. She gave unto them Community Standards. Yet the people disobeyed. They fought. They told falsehoods. They shared graven images of themselves.

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Jeff Jarvis

@jeffjarvis

6 Oct

@newmarkjschool

SUCH an important report on Black news media from @newmarkjschool's @CCMNewmarkJ: @cthompsonmorton + @gmochkofsky. We must give much more support to Black & Latino media (mass media had their chance). This report demonstrates why:

blackmediareport.journalism.cuny.edu

e.g.: "Black media publishes, by a factor of as high as 6X, more coverage than MSM on issues of importance to Black communities, including racism, health disparities, & voting access. 23% of articles in Black media mention racism or related issues, vs. 8% in mainstream media"

Shameful indictment of MSM & reason to reconsider every beat!:
In coronavirus coverage, Black media wrote five times more than mainstream media on the disproportionate racial impact of the pandemic, and nearly twice as much as mainstream media on frontline and essential workers.

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Jeff Jarvis

@jeffjarvis

11 Sep

I remember the silence coming up to the concourse in the World Trade Center, a place that was never silent.

On the concourse, I remember the sight of high heels abandoned by their owners who had run away. I remember a faint smell of smoke. I remember the newsstand proprietor, calmly shutting his shop.

I remember the face of the cop, a woman, urgently shouting at us as we came up from the concourse, ordering us to RUN!

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Jeff Jarvis

@jeffjarvis

10 Sep

@Ask_Spectrum

My 95-year-old, deaf father--having come out of his breakthrough COVID and as a result moved into assisted living--fell today but we cannot communicate with him because after WEEKS @Ask_Spectrum will not move his text phone from one apartment to another in the same community.

@Ask_Spectrum

Do you care, @Ask_Spectrum @GetSpectrum? Do you give a damn? Do you have a human heart anywhere in your organization? Failing that, do you have one efficient human being who can make this happen?

@Ask_Spectrum

In *every* call with @Ask_Spectrum employees, I have explained that my father is 95 and deaf and just had COVID. Not once, not even once did a single employee express the slightest sympathy. That is the culture of this company. Heartless.

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