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<p>The first movie theater experience I had after COVID had them
shut down was watching Tom Hanks wander through NM landscape
(filmed here more than set here) settings reading the Newspapers
out loud to news-hungry, mostly illiterate, post-Civil-War
townies. He added another layer of curation/editorial value (or
as a few towns demonstrated) bias and censorship. The movie title
was "News of the World"... it was an effective commentary/parable
on the whole problem of "what means 'News'?", particularly in a
time of rapid cultural, economic, political and technological
change. <br>
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<p>Sam Clemens was a reporter (Journalist?) before he was a writer
of fictions and commentary. <br>
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<p>I live my life by aphorisms and anecdotes (maybe not literally,
but they do represent a significant influence). A quote that I
have apparently made up (since I can never find the source of it)
is misphrased as "I always read the paper two weeks late, because
by then it has proven to be wrong or is no longer relevant". I
always attributed this to Twain, but apparently I know nothing.
Another quote attributed (by many) to him is roughly "A man who
does not read the newspaper is uninformed, a man who does read the
newspaper is misinformed". I found this to be a nice salve to
the harsh abrasions caused by caustic declarations of "Fake News!"
that ramped up so drastically with Trump's ascendency. Rich,
regularly coming from a news outlet whose name is so close to
"Faux News" to attack all other sources.</p>
<p>I am sure that Tom and his profession has a lot of perspective to
offer, but in the voice of Twain, "I'm not sure we are prepared to
receive it".</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/15/22 6:53 AM, glen wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:965929f7-bccd-78a8-58b8-d3ba0c0449d3@gmail.com">It's an
interesting question. Someone posted a poll on a Mastodon server
recently, something like "What is it you want from all this stuff?
(E.g. Twitter, Facebook, ...)" The possible answers were things
like "Friendship", "Connectedness", etc. There was an "Other",
which I filled in. I wrote something like: "The state of the
world. When I was younger, I read the newspaper and watched the
daily news on one of the big 3 networks. Now, it feels like
everything's all fractured. TV news is for ancient, out of touch
people. The newspaper is neither local, nor does it tell
interesting national or international stories. So, I use these
media, like 12-20 different outlets just to get some sense of the
state of the world."
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I wish I had a better answer to "where do you find this stuff". It
can be exhausting trying to stay informed. Fora like FriAM help a
bit.
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On 8/13/22 17:57, Gillian Densmore wrote:
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And where do find this stuff glen >_<
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM glen <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>
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