• Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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    3 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 …).

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      3 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.org
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        3 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.