Ten years. Eight movies.
Thanks for the best generation of all.
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May242012
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Anonymous asked: sweet blog, now go play tumblrtreats(.)com and post your high score
ummmmm…. suuuurrrreee!!!
May222012
uth:
Speak Up, Speak Out : A Toolkit for Reporting on Human Rights Issues
This toolkit is both a human rights reference guide and a workbook for journalists and civic activists who want to improve their ability to report on human rights issues in a fair, accurate, and sensitive way.
March282012
Embracing our story, culture | The Trinidad Guardian Newspaper
Ah get publish!!
My first article to actually make it to the papers :)
March172012
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story (by TEDtalksDirector)
March82012
“We heard horrific stories of American female journalists being attacked during the Egyptian revolution in 2011. There are many other cases we did not hear about because the victims are not Western. They don’t have the same access and publicity; they may not be as comfortable talking openly about an issue that’s considered private and sensitive in some cultures, or they may worry that any frank discussion could portray them as weak and incapable of braving the dangers of field journalism.”
Zeina Awad, writing about the issues faced by female journalists and encouraging dialogue on the subject. Read the full piece from Al Jazeera. (via futurejournalismproject)
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
March62012
Journalists are the 99 percent too, says new Tumblr | Poynter.
A St. Petersburg Times reporter has riffed on the “We are the 99 Percent” Tumblr and created a Tumblr where journalists can tell their stories.
1PM
Reporter who created ‘We Are Journalists’ Tumblr takes PR job | Poynter.
It’s a surprising turn of events for the founder of a Web property where journalists could write this about themselves: ”I pray my words make a difference. I live and breathe this ethereal thing called truth.”
March52012
Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.
I need to keep this.
11AM
Sorry, there's no such thing as 'correct grammar' | Michael Rosen
From The Guardian:
One of the interesting things about the word “grammar” is that many of its users think that it is self-evident that it refers to one thing: “the grammar” of the language. If only the matter were that simple. Whereas linguists are agreed that language has grammar, what they can’t agree on is how to describe it. So, while there is a minimum agreement that language is a system with parts that function in relation to each other, there is no universal agreement on how the parts and the functions should be analysed and described, nor indeed if they should be described as some kind of self-sealed system or whether they should always be described in terms of the users, ie those who “utter” the language, and those who “receive” it (speakers and listeners, writers and readers etc).
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Many people yearn for correctness and this is expressed in the phrase “standard English”. The honourable side to this is that it offers a common means of exchange. However, this leads many people to imagine that because it is called standard, it is run by rules and that these rules are fixed. I’ve always understood rules to be regulations that are drawn up in some agreed list. They are fixed (until such time as they are amended) and they are enforceable. In fact, there is no agreed list, a good deal of what we say and write keeps changing and nothing is enforceable. Instead, language is owned and controlled by everybody and what we do with it seems to be governed by various kinds of consent, operating through the social groups of our lives. Social groups in society don’t swim about in some kind of harmonious melting pot. We rub against each other from very different and opposing positions, so why we should agree about language use and the means of describing it is beyond me.
Link to the rest at The Guardian.
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