Wesley tells Inigo: Get used to disappointment
Building trust in media
by Public User
Wesley tells Inigo: Get used to disappointment
by timlangeman
When Donald Trump was asked whether he would protect European countries that didn’t meet military spending requirements, Trump replied no I would not protect you
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Conservatives have been repeatedly burned by out-of-context quotations, whether by 60 minutes or elsewhere. This quote isn’t out-of-context, but readers can gain a much better understanding if they view the video context.
by timlangeman
David Whyte on poetry:
I always say that poetry is language against which you have no defenses.
by timlangeman
One point Gladwell made was that there are no bad neighborhoods there only bad blocks
. By this Gladwell meant that crime is concentrated in small areas (blocks), which require a concentrated response, rather than a blanket “stop and frisk” policy that affects whole neighborhoods.
by Public User
After the Trump-Harris debate, the internet responded with songs and remixes of the Trump line
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: .. And I’ll tell you something, he’s going to talk about immigration a lot tonight even when it’s not the subject that is being raised. And I’m going to actually do something really unusual and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies because it’s a really interesting thing to watch. You will see during the course of his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about windmills cause cancer. And what you will also notice is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. And I will tell you the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you. You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams, and your, your desires. And I’ll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first. And I pledge to you that I will.
DAVID MUIR: Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill and successfully so? That would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: First let me respond as to the rallies. She said people start leaving. People don’t go to her rallies. There’s no reason to go. And the people that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there. And then showing them in a different light. So, she can’t talk about that. People don’t leave my rallies. We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics. That’s because people want to take their country back. Our country is being lost. We’re a failing nation. And it happened three and a half years ago. And what, what’s going on here, you’re going to end up in World War 3, just to go into another subject. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country. And look at what’s happening to the towns all over the United States. And a lot of towns don’t want to talk — not going to be Aurora or Springfield. A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs
. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats
. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there
. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame. As far as rallies are concerned, as far — the reason they go is they like what I say. They want to bring our country back. They want to make America great again. It’s a very simple phrase. Make America great again. She’s destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn’t have a chance of success. Not only success. We’ll end up being Venezuela on steroids.
Source: ABC News Transcript
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by timlangeman
In an interview with TYT, Ken described the FBI agent who visited him over the JD Vance dossier as a young blond guy who might have tripped over his umbilical cord on the way over [and] looked stumped when I asked him what the point of the visit was
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If you click on the prior quote, you can inspect the video context, without having to leave this article and visit TYT or YouTube.
I’m interested in hearing feedback on what people think of this App concept.
by timlangeman
When I told my Mom I was trying to contact Ken Klippenstein. She remarked “That sounds like a Russian-Mennonite name!”
I told her he’s a nepo baby, but I don’t care because he brings the receipts
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I’m working on an App to help writers to build trust with readers who are skeptical of their journalism, but persuadable. The App showcases the context of their sources in a visible way, differentiating their work from “mainstream” media. The App doesn’t require the reader to leave the existing article and visit a new page to read the documentation or video. The App reads YouTube video transcripts and enables writers to include an unlimited number of citations per article, whereas there is limited space to embed videos or document within an article.
Besides bringing the receipts, writers can also use the tool expressively: Imagine citing a Jack Nicholson quote that (many) people are already familiar with: You can’t handle the truth
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Electronic writing has added emoticons, animated GIFs, audio and video to the new writing medium.
I’m seeking to get feedback from readers and from writers. I’m especially interested in hearing from Ken because his practice of journalism already brings “the receipts” and has someone edit his work. 1
I’m a computer programmer and History major, (and Russian-Mennnonite) working on a citation tool I call CiteIt .
Tim Langeman, Akron, PA
This page: https://demo.citeit.net/2024/05/25/bring-the-receipts
I have 5 interview questions for Ken. An important part is understanding whether I need change anything to take into account his Workflow and Editorial process.↩
by timlangeman
I was surprised that Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” had a staff person call show sponsors to ask permission to make fun of them:
There was a certain person who was in charge of if the show wanted to make fun of a corporate sponsor or someone under the umbrella of one of the corporate sponsors, this person who worked for the Daily Show would call that company and try to convince them it’s cool to be made fun of. It’s okay to be made fun of on the Daily Show. The clear implication was if that company says no, it’s not getting on there. So imagine the level of corporations that are somehow tied to Viacom, Comcast, all of those, every entity. If they don’t want to be made fun of on the Daily Show, then they’re not going to be. Well, then the Daily Show can’t critique half of what owns this country.
by timlangeman
In an interview published July 19, 2023, William Arkin told Democracy Now that the US doesn’t have visibility into what Ukraine is doing because Ukraine and the US do not have a treaty:
The United States knows as little about what Zelensky is up to and what he he’s thinking and what his views are about the future as it does about Vladimir Putin and his future plans and intentions and so this might come as a surprise to some people but as my sources explained it to me the reality is that Ukraine is not an ally of the United States we have no treaty obligations
by timlangeman
So the question is where is he getting these quotes and then why doesn’t it give citations?
Briahna Joy Gray commented on delegate Plaskett‘s letter to Taibbi:
It seems very clear that this kind of a letter is an effort to threaten and coerce and punish Taibbi for giving testimony that was inconvenient to the Democratic party and that’s a real problem and it’s exactly what Lee Fong has been warning of this whole time and while he why he’s treated the characterization of Matt’s remarks during that Congressional hearing so seriously saying that it’s not it’s it’s not okay this isn’t just like a Tit for Tat accusing someone of lying