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futurejournalismproject:

Here’s and excerpt of Clay Shirky’s take on Brisbane’s question via The Guardian’s Comment is Free.

This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in newsroom culture that he does not understand – literally, does not understand, as we know from his subsequent clarifications – that this is not a hard question at all, considered from thereaders’ perspective. Readers do not care about the epistemological differences between lies and weasel words; we want newspapers to limit the ability of politicians to make dubious assertions without penalty. Judging from the reactions to his post, most of us never understood that this wasn’t the newspapers’ self-conceived mission in the first place.

Continue reading on the Guardian.
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See the sunlight, we ain’t stoppingKeep on dancing til the world endsIf you feel it, let it happenKeep on dancing til the world ends
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#c7ffd5
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chicagoscreenshots:

Red Heat, 1988
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rhamphotheca:

sexyactionplanet: Oh wow. You can see why choosing a path of marine biology wasn’t hard…

* Flamingo Tongue (snail), Cyphoma gibbosum
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imremembering:

Cherry Cola Bubblicious 
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