Comment Re:30 years of journalism experience in 30 seconds (Score 1) 156
Teach the controversy! :)
I've often thought about what differentiates a blogger from a journalist. To suggest that there is no difference is demeaning to journalists -- and yes, I know there are lots of those are hardly worthy of the name, but to just flatly equate the two is unjust to the professional, fact-checking variety that is supposed to be the standard.
Before the rise of the internet, there was no platform for any old person to put their opinion in print (digital or otherwise) and reach a broad audience. Sure, you could print up pamphlets and hand them out on street corners, but wide distribution was gated by publishers. We've removed a lot of middlemen between content producers and content consumers, and a lot of that is probably good. But one of the benefits (and problems in some cases) was that some of those middlemen provided filtering. It's great that we no longer have that filtering in one aspect; it's allowed a lot of things that the 'powers that be' judged uninteresting and turned out not to be so. But it also means that a lot of pure noise that was filtered out is now crowding out the signal in some cases.
Part of the problem journalism faces is that in order to compete on speed, they're skipping steps. There was a time when a juicy story was held back while they triple-checked it. That happens less & less because time-to-print (or broadcast, etc.) has become the defining metric. When you're competing with someone who doesn't check anything they put up, you start to look pretty follow-the-leaders when you post after fact-checking.
So while some of this is definitely a problem for journalists, namely how to stay relevant in a world of instant publication, a lot of this is our fault too. If we were willing to wait a bit, preferring immediately accuracy instead of immediate attention grabbing, it would give those who want to do things right the breathing room to verify. So long as we're all grabbing click bait the second its available, we're screaming loud and clear to the conglomerates that run our news media that its far more important to be first than accurate.
1 vote for: Bloggers + Snopes > Journalism.
which barely attempts to editing.
"Attempts to editing"??
Pot, meet Kettle....
I doubt Sarten-X has an editor budget.
Its more like: "Pot, meet Fully Staffed & Automated Modern Kitchen Here Take A Look At The Internet Controlled Toaster No It Only Toasts One Side I Don't Know Where The Butter Is Anyways Just Have Coffee Oops I Spilled It."
because I know that the journalists are, as I said, under pressure to run a story as soon as possible, and often play fast and loose with facts in a way bloggers cannot and still maintain readers.
You really think so?
Personally, I would think if what you said were true, we wouldn't have any vaccine deniers, Oprah would be penniless, & Rush Limbaugh would never have been famous at all. Really, how does Rush keep any viewers despite his wonderful record of lies, b.s., inaccuracies and hypocrisy?
No, they don't write, but they're of the same class as youtube bloggers. They are 2 of many that have proven the only thing you need to get readers or viewers, is a well-presented story. Facts be damned.
Bloggers just don't have the resources, the time, the inclination, the requirement, or the ability to do the kind of fact checking that mainstream media does. If a blogger spends 6 months intensely investigating a story, that is 180 blog posts they didn't write. The only thing that hurts bloggers total viewer #s is not posting regularly. While many outlets, *cough* cnn *cough*, have tried to follow the blogger money train in terms of story quality, and there have been scandals and honest mistakes in mainstream, they still have the power to produce quality, in-depth, reports. Bloggers don't. Just like individual code-whizes can produce some stunningly awesome apps, hacks, & snippets, but can't, in a 1000 years, just "whip up" a quality OS.
Do *some* bloggers do better and produce quality stuff? Sure. To me though, that only proves a million monkeys working together can eventually produce Shakespeare: 999,999 monkeys throwing shit + 1 Mojo Jojo.
The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies, and technology is always moving forward
The thing is, if you got a quality education, or even a sub-par one but made up for it with natural talent, you never "get away from your education" because technology, like other science, just builds on existing technology. The core of it doesn't change.
Obviously as it becomes more complicated, it requires more specialization, so there is a chance your chosen specialization may get pruned off the technology tree, but again that only means you have to go back to the last branch that goes to something active.
Furthermore, once you're done with school, you start your next round of schooling: conferences, documentation, "nothing we have now will do it right so lets find a new way." It is the very basis of every creative mind out there.
This is about money. More of it in his pocket at any expense to others. Pure and simple.
I can't believe anyone mods this shit up.
Stupid is never alone.
You've failed to account for what happens to dairy cattle in this country after they are not useful producers. They become ground beef.
It's likely that much of the beef served in fast food restaurants has extensive historical alfalfa input - from the many years those cows spent in a dairy.
Except OP wasn't talking about beef, he was talking about McDonald's hamburgers. -1 offtopic for you.
No. Dogs and race car drivers, specifically canine race car drivers, are awesome.
Go, Dog. Go!
Here is nolo's definition: https://www.nolo.com/dictionar...
IANAL, I'm just pedantic enough to be one.
Resident != Occupant, and an unchallenged occupants consent is all that is required per this case and Georgia v Randolph
An occupant is defined as somebody using the residence as an owner, or tenant.
Housekeepers (even if they have a key), babysitters, construction workers, gardeners, your friends, and your grandmother that is down visiting for the week, are neither and so do not have the legal authority to consent to a search of the residence.
"Occupant means you live there as a legal resident. It does not include strangers and "persons that have no habitation rights of the residence they are in"."
Citation needed.
Such is actually common legal knowledge. http://legal-dictionary.thefre...
Th ultimate programming model: Inactive programming. You do nothing, but still get a working program.
Already have that.
Its called "Management".
I just didn't like your example because I felt it excluded too many variables that are not insignificant. Whatever the reason for the prices is actually irrelevant to SplatMan_DK's point that swapping tickets is not arbitrage because tickets to/from different stops are not the same.
If you want to protest the system by exchanging tickets or otherwise cheating it... That's up to you. If I was dictator I'd run the systems differently than they are, but I don't think the unfairness in the pricing is bad enough to jump turnstyles.
Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyger
