I've been experimenting with various ways to wordlessly differentiate between paraphrasing, quoting, and commentary on any news I share. I think I've settled on this format:
If I don't want to share the link (due to paywall or short info being sufficient) I'll do something like
NYTimes: exact quote or BBC: exact quote.
If the link is shared, anything before the headline and link is paraphrased or personal commentary. Anything after the link is a direct quote - maybe slightly edited for character limits.
Any additional personal commentary will come after a dashed line
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like this.
My rules for #MediaLiteracy:
1. Always critically read at least 3 versions of any news story before coming to any conclusions.
2. Know or research the reputation and bias of each story's publisher and author.
3. Never believe anything completely. 99.999% confidence is fine, but leave room for doubt because once our brains believe something, information opposed to that belief is automatically filtered out of our awareness. (science knows this - it's why studies are double blind)
and...
Aside from the glaring issue of demonizing victims of air pollution as causing air pollution to treat their symptoms, this triggers me regarding another serious issue I have with the #EnvironmentalMovement #CarbonFootprint calculators, and the demonizing of #Meat consumption. So please forgive the following #ClimateChange #Rant...
Holy Shit. "one of ours. all of yours". on a government podium?!?
That's serious fascism stuff. It's the approach taken by the Nazis when Reinhard Heydrich, a prime architect of the holocaust, was assassinated by the resistance.
The assassins were mistakenly believed to be from the town of Lidice in occupied Czechoslovakia. So the Nazi's rounded up all the men and boys and killed them, and sent all the women to concentration camps. wiped the town off the map.
THAT is what's being evoked by that phrase on the puppy killer's podium.
I've been experimenting with various ways to wordlessly differentiate between paraphrasing, quoting, and commentary on any news I share. I think I've settled on this format:
If I don't want to share the link (due to paywall or short info being sufficient) I'll do something like
NYTimes: exact quote or BBC: exact quote.
If the link is shared, anything before the headline and link is paraphrased or personal commentary. Anything after the link is a direct quote - maybe slightly edited for character limits.
Any additional personal commentary will come after a dashed line
---------
like this.
My rules for #MediaLiteracy:
1. Always critically read at least 3 versions of any news story before coming to any conclusions.
2. Know or research the reputation and bias of each story's publisher and author.
3. Never believe anything completely. 99.999% confidence is fine, but leave room for doubt because once our brains believe something, information opposed to that belief is automatically filtered out of our awareness. (science knows this - it's why studies are double blind)
and...
Aside from the glaring issue of demonizing victims of air pollution as causing air pollution to treat their symptoms, this triggers me regarding another serious issue I have with the #EnvironmentalMovement #CarbonFootprint calculators, and the demonizing of #Meat consumption. So please forgive the following #ClimateChange #Rant...
Hippy Steve