Hard News: Safer Communities Together
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One of the odd things is that depending on how you look at it, either all the weather is caused by climate change or none is. But it's fair to remark on the frequencies.
I notice that deeper in that April-Fool's-Day-2007 release from the C"S"C, Augie says:
Dr Salinger uses the words ‘as climate warming occurs’, when his own agency's latest seasonal summary statistics for December-February just released show New Zealand at 15.7 degrees C, 0.9 degrees lower than normal.
Add Augie's decision to use of local season data to deduce world climate to the sophistry of his counterargument and I think Salinger is still standing afterwards. And we do expect more exreme events, inculding floods (http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/about/impacts.html).
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response that it's not ok to share ideas
The point is about the words - or rather the sentences. He could have used quote marks if he liked. Which would have shown how lazy he was being (part of the problem) rather than disguising it (a lot more of the problem).
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Brickley, watch the you tube clip from Stephen a couple posts above to see what Russell was referring to.
I can't watch that at work either.
I'll wait until I get home I guess.
Why can't someone just spell it out?
Anything about cops and I'm dying to know...
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Apropos Media7: I'm afraid that learning that "trauma journalism" is a trade term doesn't improve my feelings about news reporting.
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Brickley: the clip depicts a cop stopping a teenager on the street at 3AM.
The teenager in question explains himself by saying he is off to buy a pie from the convenience store at a petrol station.
The concerned policeman ensures that the teenager has enough money to purchase a pie. It is established that the teenager has three dollars, and that this is likely to be enough.
Knowing that service station pies are very hot in the middle at 3AM in the morning, and concerned that the young man might hurt his mouth, the policeman reminds the teenager of the importance of blowing on the pie, by means of Socratic inquiry or catechism.
Finally, the policeman alludes to the role of the police in maintaining the safety of the community by referring to a well-known slogan.
I trust this allays your concerns.
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And yet the clip is so much more.
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And the underlying conditioned cultural response that it's not ok to share ideas, that people must work independently, is why the environmental problem will never be solved.
Mark, the underlying cultural assumption behind 'plagiarism is bad' is 'credit where it's due'.
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Apropos Media7: I'm afraid that learning that "trauma journalism" is a trade term doesn't improve my feelings about news reporting
Not at all, Stephen. It's actually an important, and relatively new, field of training and study -- for a long time, journalists sent in to traumatic situations were pretty much left to deal with it themselves afterwards.
I interviewed Jim McMillan of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, who got interested in the field after struggling to deal with his own response to the 9/11 attacks, where he took some some extraordinary pictures:
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I was more curious than concerned. Now I'm confused and significantly less curious.
Let me know when they taser a pregnant woman. I've got a pool going on that one if anyone wants in. $20.
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3410,
And yet the clip is so much more.
Indeed. It's so Kiwi it makes Hot Fuzz look like Bad Boys II.
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I'm just wondering - maybe we can turn "Always blow on the pie" into a new form a gay code ;-)
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Ah, it seems that I took "trauma journalism" exactly the wrong way.
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Another great Police 10-7 moment (it's carried here in Oz on one of the free to air channels - possibly for it's comedic value) was when a couple of constables accosted a graffitti 'artist'. During the questioning one of the cops starts exclaiming how talented the perp is, and how he should find a gallery to represent him. The other cop finds a bucket and scrubbing brush (from where I know not) and as it turns out the art work has been done in water based paints no one is charged.
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"Always blow on the pie" - said in my best Marvin Gaye voice.
Teasing drunks - has to be one of the perks of the job.
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Teasing drunks - has to be one of the perks of the job.
Shurely "tasing drunks"?
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If the text is provided explicitly for reuse, like a press release or wire story, are journos supposed to attribute it?
I'm guessing the global warming deniers *want* their drivel repeated and don't care about attribution.
That'd be my line if I was Garf's employment lawyer, anyway.
I reckon he won't be even slowed down by this. Silver stakes and crossroads at midnight would be more the mark, really.
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If the text is provided explicitly for reuse, like a press release or wire story, are journos supposed to attribute it?
Yes.
A wire story might be incorporated in a news report, but ideally you'd want the source noted in the byline.
And cutting and pasting press releases isn't journalism. Although it is regrettably common.
I'm guessing the global warming deniers *want* their drivel repeated and don't care about attribution.
Not the point. When journalists use other writers' words in any substantial way, they should be attributed. In this case, Garth simply copied and pasted a polemic when he was, in theory, being paid to think of something himself.
Anyway, word out there is that Garth will keep his column: saved by a colon -- which might be taken to confer attribution, even though he didn't use quotation marks thereafter.
So he's regarded as merely having done what he often does -- padding out huge stretches of his column with quotations he doesn't even need to retype.
I wrote a weekly column for years, and it's something you have to guard against doing in lean weeks. It can be easier, sometimes better, to quote generously rather than rephrase the ideas yourself.
But I can't recall a prominent columnist as lazy in this respect as Garth George is.
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3410,
It can be easier, sometimes better, to quote generously rather than rephrase the ideas yourself.
Right. Nothing wrong with being an ideas aggregator. Pretending that the ideas are your own, though, is deceiving the reader.
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RB, 50-instead-of-20 posts per page is making refering back to older comments, IMO, much harder.] -
I take my hat off to anyone that can get far enough through one of GG's articles to spot plagiarism. My eyes usually glaze over when I see his evil eyes.
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Right. Nothing wrong with being an ideas aggregator. Pretending that the ideas are your own, though, is deceiving the reader.
Yes -- just not too much. You're supposed to be adding some value of your own.
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[O/T,
RB, 50-instead-of-20 posts per page is making refering back to older comments, IMO, much harder.]Actually, I've been meaning to ask about that -- I think I feel the same way.
Anyone else have a thought on this? It's a parameter I can easily have changed.
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Dare I ask...user-configurable?
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Dare I ask...user-configurable?
That would be new functionality rather than just using a different value in the CMS, but not a bad idea.
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I agree; fifty posts per page seems just a tad excessive; 25? I'm just pulling numbers out of my arse... just like a Climate Change Denier.
See what I did there? Throwing out shapes.
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I take my hat off to anyone that can get far enough through one of GG's articles to spot plagiarism. My eyes usually glaze over when I see his evil eyes.
That glare is just to disguise Garth's own glaze. Old curmudgeon trick.
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I agree with 3410. 50 seems too much, but 20 maybe too few. 30, maybe?
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