Building trust in media

The betrayal of the Minsk agreements

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The Ukrainians were losing badly at Debaltza and as a result of that this was buying them some time and they took the ceasefire as a way to rebuild their army and
then expand the civil war now they uh it was really sort of fro a frozen conflict from you know 2015 on for the next uh seven years until 2022 and then that’s when Russia realized that Ukraine was getting ready to launch a major invasion they were building up their forces and uh Russia said okay we’re going to launch a preemptive strike

Trump’s Economic Gamble: David Friedberg Predicts the Master Plan

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I don’t have any direct
line of communication to folks that are
constructing the theory and the policy
if I were to say what’s the most
masterful plan in an optimistic way of
what could be going on here what’s the
master plan I would kind of craft it as
follows tariffs aren’t being done in
isolation they’re being done along with
a coordinated policy effort to reduce
income taxes and another policy effort
to reduce government spending so those
are three actions three legs on a stool

When Context is Stripped Away

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I think that Judaism has the same problem that any thick civilization has in a world in which um as you say context is stripped away and not only is context stripped away but but attention to any one thing is is scanter and less than it used to be.

Donald Trump will not protect Europe

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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.

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.

  • Authors who use CiteIt build reader trust and make it easy for the reader to learn more about a quote’s context.

Malcolm Gladwell: No bad neighborhoods

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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.

Ken Klippenstein’s Home Visited By FBI Agent

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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.

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.

 

An Easier Way to Showcase “the Receipts”

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1) “The Receipts”

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.

Building Reader Trust:

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.

2) Familiar Quotes: Jack Nicholson:

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!

Digital Expression: Beyond Emoticons & Animated GIFs

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

The Design Features of CiteIt: do not require:

  1. Readers having to go to a new page, which introduces page-flipping friction and requires the reader to locate the quote start within the document and
  2. Writers having to limit the number “receipts” they post within an article to conserve space, as there is limited space within an article to display videos and document
  3. Putting “the receipts” at the bottom of the page where they are only visible after an article has been read.
  4. Copying the Quote context.  CiteIt looks up the context, given a link URL.
  5. Computer Programming to script the popup windows.

About me

I’m a computer programmer and History major, (and Russian-Mennnonite) working on a citation tool I call CiteIt .

Tim Langeman

Tim Langeman, Akron, PA

Examples:

 

This page: https://demo.citeit.net/2024/05/25/bring-the-receipts

  1. 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.↩

John Stewart’s “Daily Show” had to ask Corporate Sponsors for permission to make fun of them

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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.