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Jan 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A little journalism lesson:

The problem in journalism is that unless your screw-up gets big, or your org forces you to face it

U can basically ignore requests to fix it or comment,
It didn't use to be that way, but that's how the news media works these days
But just cuz the industry is in a bit of a moment when it comes to rectifying bad reporting,

Be a good journalist cuz its the right thing to do not cuz U will get in trouble #journalism #news #writing
As a journalist you will inevitably screw up something, make a mistake, it happens

the right thing to do is fix it, acknowledge it & move on

Learn from your mistake & do better next time
What bothers me is especially in the podcast sphere of, it takes a lot of outside pressure to get anyone to fix anything

NYT got away for years with bad middle eastern reporting in their pods & only fixed things after getting major pressure

Here is the NYT's version,
others were much more brutal,
there was a ton of material completely fabricated
nytimes.com/2020/12/18/wor…
thedailybeast.com/new-york-times…
very worst ones are documentaries,

a medium that can get away w/ a whole lot of garbage
happywarrior.substack.com/p/crime-of-the…

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Jan 28
New @ me @FDRLST✍️

Facebook, Reddit Ban Pro-Cop Comic That Broke No Platform Rules🚫
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The largest #comics social media page on the net,

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They also banned the @FDRLST citing my article for Baron's ban

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Jan 28
hate sent @TheAtlantic way over this article is crazy,

the science just isn't there that cloth masks do all that much & there is nothing that suggests it helps kiddos

Have U tried to get kids to not mess around w/ their faces

makes whatever small potential positive pointless
Big part of the problem w/ kids masking in schools is that the rules are incomplete & change from day to day,

U cant have kids being told they have to wear the mask on Tuesday but not Wednesday

which happened in some states like Virginia & New York abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto…
Iowa & Michigan have this problem as well

Pennsylvania

As different policy deciders at different levels & branches fight over it, kids can be moved from completely different rules during the school year
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Jan 27
unpopular opinion,

I don't think clearing your Twitter timeline is always a bad idea
Honestly, the incentives to clean your timeline once a year or so, are wildly in favor of erasure,

My feeling is to use @threadreaderapp & archiving for important threads, or clear the timeline around the important stuff you want to keep around
Twitter is built on hot takes & @ moment observations,

but these age extremely poorly & doesn't make sense not to clear your timeline now & then

Many are happy to use reasonable statements at the time against U

I wish it wasnt like that, but Ur working against human nature
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Jan 25
How 1 brave esports host sacrificed her multi-million dollar network, career & the careers of her associates to complain about imaginary misogyny🔦

OH.....& how she mentioned G4 hosts don't play the games they have to review😬 #gaming #G4TV #gamers
Gaming world spiraled into outrage earlier this month when Indiana @Froskurinn Black, host of Comcasts new gaming network @G4TV lectured viewers on finding her less “bangable” than previous hosts

Lecture so shrill & destructive,
Must be seen to be believed👀
@FDRLST #frosk #rant
Outburst racked up millions of views across social media & gaming outlets covering the story

Old fans of G4, unaware the network had relaunched, were blasted w/ the decadent state of their old favs 😵‍💫
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The anxiety-intractable pain feedback mechanism is the worst,

You get anxiety, increases pain, which increases anxiety,

It makes trying to get, well, anything done that much more difficult
I don't tend to get writer's block,
I get ideas for writing fine,

it's more a problem of a pain block

If any of you have ideas on how to more easily overcome that difficulty I'd be happy to hear it #chronicpain #writing #WritingCommunity #writingtips #journalism
There was a certain scientist I respect that said the priority of pain care is to elevate function,

Which I think is good, but more often than not, pain severely impairs my ability to function & I'm not sure how you delineate the two sides of chronic pain
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I have this re-occurring nightmare where the harm reductionist & patients rights side gets pushed back into obscurity as the prohibitionist's side takes over again
This comes from I think my subconscious mind clicking into the fact that harm reduction & patient freedom are at the moment associated with a certain political faction

& when this faction becomes incredibly unpopular again it will take harm reduction w/ it
At the moment harm reduction is libertarians, some classic liberals & progressives cheerleading this movement

& if the new-right pro-government movement takes control with say, a new Trump presidency, that this would be very bad for the support of these pro-freedom ideas
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