Message from @Timcast
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Oh ok thanks ...
Didnt know that
Oh there it is , shit im slacking on my tech stuff
All I see is someone asking for a person who shouldn't be employable
The names of those courses, so good! 😁
"Black Geographies". Plural?
"Critical insfrastructure studies".
"Postcolonial urban theory".
bbc swooping in with another great example of why stealth edits are unethical
Black Geographies ~= Slums
Critical Infrastructure Studies ~= Prisons
Postcolonial Urban Theory ~= City Planning
???
That hairstyle on Sarah Jeong makes much more sense.
Also yeah, stealth editing needs to be countered somehow
NewsDiffs and archive sites are good, but knowledge of them isn't widespread enough
I wonder who flags an article that "needs" edited. Is it an editor who notices something and demands it be rephrased or is it a response to angry tweets from activists?
In this case, it was obviously some "you can't be racist to white people" idiot who demanded it be changed.
If I had to guess, when people quote the article in a way that makes it sound as bad as it really is, somebody notices and says "We need to make this sound less bad"
and vice-versa for anti-right wing/conservative articles
Really, though, their database should be tracking all changes to any article, when they were made, etc., and then the website should be taking that metadata and displaying it whether they like it or not
@Timcast speaking of editing http://gothamist.com/2018/08/02/ny_times_defends_hiring_writer_with.php
“Term’s use by white supremecists”
nyt really is evil
stealth editing is evil
defending racists to serve your agenda is evil
i dont care if jeong is racist
I care that they fired quinn norton for similar bullshit
they have no principles
Knowing the NYT, they'd probably say their principles are "flexible"
And then later stealth edit that to say "flawless"
Im fine with them hiring jeoung but defending her and lying about it is disgusting
Idk if it was hyperbole or my misunderstanding but I remember news reporting that Indy business we're putting signs out that said no gays allowed when a bill allowing the businesses some room in that regards
From what I remember news was reporting that the businesses were doing that
However it never had happened and I can't find the old articles anymore
This was like 3-6 years ago
@ExceptionalFeather tim talked about a site that archives the news stories from the editing i forgot what it was called @Timcast
You could prob find it there
they dont get em all though
There it is
Some news sites block archiving though that’s why it doesnt get all of then
That's another scummy practice