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Today is the 3rd day of the 45th week, the 7th day of the 11th month, the 311th day of 2017, and:
- Election Day (US)
- Employee Brotherhood Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)
- Hug a Bear Day
- International Merlot Day
- Little League Girls Day
- National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
- National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
- Notary Public Day
On this day in...
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 31 mins 52 secs of light-travel time and Voyager 2 is 16 hrs 06 mins 22 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Bias. The one thing that we were taught in Journalism 101 was the 5th Estate had the responsibility of reporting the news, of sharing facts not opinions. But we were also taught how to phrase things to make them readable, which meant tailoring the language and vocabulary to the standard reading level, and also to make them interesting – and it is the latter that tends to get things a bit twisted when you start with “knowing your audience”. You learn which stories will sell, and which will not. You learn that when you weight your words with semantic overtones then you can utilize underlying meanings to supplement the paucity of words in the space you are allotted so that you can tell the story you perceive and slowly, inexorably, you slip from objective fact to subjective interpretation
Yesterday there was a flurry of activity in the news and in social media. DJT had done it again and made himself into the clownish quintessential Ugly American, breaking delicate Japanese protocols and turning ceremony into charade. The story was picked up and spread by newscasts and articles. Except that isn’t what happened – the video present had been edited. In one small story, the entire ridiculous and constant claims of “fake news” was glaringly shown to have some basis in all too real fact. And how does this happen? Let’s be kind and assume they are trying to tell a compelling story, and looking for ways to illustrate their narrative. We won’t assume that it is a naked propaganda effort, or at least I won’t but I guarantee you that there are others who feel that way. No this is not the fault of “social media”, editing/cropping pictures and text has been around for a very long time; in fact, I would argue that they both have been in play since we started writing things down to be shared. Case in point:
Obviously if you only see the picture on the left, you are seeing an American soldier brutalizing a hapless prisoner. If you only see the picture on the right, you are seeing an American soldier offering aid to a distressed person. Only if you see the entire picture is the conflicted nuances apparent – the man is both a prisoner and being offered water – but that doesn’t necessarily tell a story that fits in with the narrative the reporter or the editor is trying to convey. Personally I resent having narratives thrust at me that show everything in black and white. I detest DJT [and HRC for that matter when you come right down to it], but I don’t demonize either of them even when I deplore their actions – and I don’t think Bernie is a perfect solution either. They are human and therefore a mixture of positives and negatives, neh? So give the devil his due now and then! There are many of us who are looking for that kind of reporting though! It certainly would be less stressful than trying to read all the different sides and piecing together the picture on our own as we struggle to stay informed
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