By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.
    • PhilipTheBucketOPA
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      3 days ago

      Sure, will do. I generally don’t like dodging around paywalls but The Atlantic for whatever weird reason puts full text of their stories into their RSS feed, so my habit was just to duplicate the story from the RSS feed.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s a matter of resources. One copyright-infringement suit, and Beehaw has a significant, likely site-ending problem.

        As a journalist, I’m always torn between the right of people to read things they can’t necessarily afford and the knowledge that this is a low-paying field that relies on subscriptions. Squaring those two positions is difficult, but using archive links is the best way to solve access without showing up on a web search with the full text.

        • PhilipTheBucketOPA
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, makes sense. I just took it out from this post, want me to go back and do the same for earlier posts?

          • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Far be it for me to speak for the admins, but Chris was direct about “in the future.” We’re a small enough instance that prior posts are unlikely to blow up and call attention. Just best practice going forward.

            I tend to include a few grafs that nail the thrust of an article, which falls squarely under fair use, and then provide a link to the source (and an archive link).

            Speaking of thrusts … at my first paper, I ran an A1 hed on the Israel-Palestine conflict of “Another Thrust Follows Withdrawal.” It was in a rural enough area that no one complained about the obvious innuendo (using “exasperates” sted “exacerbates” in display copy, on the other hand …).

            • PhilipTheBucketOPA
              2·
              2 days ago

              Yeah, makes perfect sense, will do.

              Matt Taibbi (before he went crazy) wrote some hilarious bits about sneaking all kinds of stuff into his articles when he was writing for smaller papers, and he said no one ever noticed. I was very saddened when he went over to the darkness for reasons I still don’t understand.

              • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                2 days ago

                Oh, I’ve definitely engaged in shenanigans. I don’t really think you’re committing journalism if you aren’t pushing boundaries. Daily.

                Sometimes, satire goes completely unnoticed, which is par for the course. Funny what gutting education and critical thinking leads to.