The lists are appearing.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
The lists are appearing.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
In which I claim to have enjoyed the film and then list many things I didn’t like. But seriously, it was fun.
Warning: spoilers present in post and welcome in comments!
Reminder: Dr Who 7.30pm Boxing Day.
Scrooge’s failing is in being disconnected from the people around him. The failure of today’s Scrooges is the belief that connecting with the people around them is enough.
It’s a bit early for a new media circus thread, but it’s also the time of year for the release of unpleasant news that the newsmakers hope will be buried by the holidays.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
This post was scheduled to go up at the exact minute of today’s solstice, but Things Happened.
Feel free to talk services, observances, decorations, rushing, shopping, gifts, surprises, feasting and family traditions heart-warming and otherwise. If anyone making other seasonal observances wants to join the thread, please do.
Today’s otter is taking a dive at the Seattle Aquarium.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. (Note: this Otterday post is a Christmas-free zone.)
It’s been a bad week here in Sydney, a bad week in Peshawar, and news from the rest of the world has mostly not been great, either.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Single issue petitions on websites like Change.org, and others of their ilk, tend to be focused on the simplest messages one can extract from an issue. The hardest line and most sensational language is encouraged to guarantee two things: the most possible signatures, and bountiful media coverage. On first glance that seems like a good thing, but what is missed with this push?
My understandable, human and heartfelt response to the tragedy of the Sydney siege was all of those things, but only those things. It was informed by my own past trauma, which are legitimate parts of the conversation but not the whole of it. It was not nuanced or critiqued, and it did not engage in community consultation. I simply said aloud and formally what many were feeling, before the facts had come into play. Swept into a maelstrom of commentary and an unanticipated furious public response, I was left reeling and scrambling to begin the consultation that should have been the foundation of any campaign.