Building trust in media

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.

They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats

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After the Trump-Harris debate, the internet responded with songs and remixes of the Trump line

  • CiteIt offers the reader the comfort of maintaining their focus within the article, while allowing them to sample media they are curious about.

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

Matt Taibbi: How do you regain Trust?

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In an interview on Rising, Matt Taibbi said how does science recover from this how do you regain trust and it’s similar to what happens in journalism after an episode like for instance the WMD affair or even Russia gate I would argue uh you know once the public is betrayed and they see that they’ve been betrayed it’s very hard to win that trust back and in science it’s it’s the same thing

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.

 

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.

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.↩

Jack Nicholson: You Can’t Handle the Truth.

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With CiteIt, writers can evoke the Jack Nicholson line:

You can’t handle the truth! — by pulling in the context from a YouTube video.

This contextual citation doesn’t provide factual context, but rather helps the reader recall a favorable memory.

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.

William Arkin, Democracy Now Interview

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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